Species Abax parallelepipedus

Classification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Harpalinae

Supertribe Pterostichitae

Tribe Pterostichini (Woodland Ground Beetles)

Genus Abax

Species parallelepipedus (Abax parallelepipedus)

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA (established in Atlantic Canada; first detected 1965)(1)

Habitat

forests; sometimes alpine prairies and open places(2)

Life Cycle

adults are brachypterous(2)

Works Cited

1.	The ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada... C.G. Majka, Y. Bousquet, & S. Westby. 2007. Zootaxa 1590: 1–36.

2.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by v belov on 11 March, 2011 - 3:23pm

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