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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Carabini » Carabus » subgenus Tanaocarabus (Carabus subgenus Tanaocarabus)

subgenus Tanaocarabus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Ground Beetle - Carabus sylvosus Arizona Carabus - Carabus forreri - male Carabid - Carabus taedatus Carabus (Tanaocarabus) finitimus Haldeman - Carabus finitimus Giant Beetle - Carabus taedatus Calosoma species? - Carabus sylvosus Carabus (Tanaocarabus) finitimus Haldeman - Carabus finitimus - male Ground Beetle - Carabus taedatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Carabinae
Tribe Carabini
Genus Carabus
No Taxon subgenus Tanaocarabus
Explanation of Names
Tanaocarabus Reitter 1896
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 5 spp. total(1)
Range
nearctic group, Canada (transcontinental) to Mexico; in our area, C. taedatus (with 4 sspp.) is boreal transcontinental & western montane, C. sylvosus widespread in e. NA (QC-FL to ON-MN-OK-TX), C. finitimus KS-TX, C. forreri AZ(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by v belov on 31 March, 2012 - 12:25am
Last updated 7 April, 2013 - 12:25pm

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