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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Trechinae » Trechitae » Bembidiini » Bembidiina » Bembidion » Subgenus Phyla (Bembidion Subgenus Phyla) » Bembidion obtusum

Species Bembidion obtusum

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
Ground Beetle - Bembidion obtusum Ground Beetle - Bembidion obtusum Minute Ground Beetle - Bembidion obtusum Minute Ground Beetle - Bembidion obtusum Small carabid - Bembidion obtusum Ground Beetle - Bembidion obtusum Ground Beetle - Bembidion obtusum Tiny Bembidion - Bembidion obtusum - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Trechinae
Supertribe Trechitae
Tribe Bembidiini
Subtribe Bembidiina
Genus Bembidion
No Taxon (Subgenus Phyla)
Species obtusum (Bembidion obtusum)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
quite isolated within Bembidion and may not belong with the rest(1)
Explanation of Names
Bembidion obtusum Audinet-Serville 1821
Identification
dorsal habitus
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA and established in ne. US and adjacent Canada (introduced ca. 1956)(2)(3)
Habitat
open, often cultivated, ground(2); synanthropic(3)
Remarks
wing-dimorphic(2)
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny of Bembidion and related ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini: Bembidiina)
Maddison D.R. 2012. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 63: 533‒576.
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.
3.The ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada...
C.G. Majka, Y. Bousquet, & S. Westby. 2007. Zootaxa 1590: 1–36.
Contributed by v belov on 8 May, 2011 - 3:57pm
Last updated 20 September, 2023 - 9:09pm

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