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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Galeritini » False Bombardier Beetles (Galerita) » subgenus Progaleritina (Galerita subgenus Progaleritina)

subgenus Progaleritina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Dark-legged western - Galerita mexicana BG2256 C2865 - Galerita lecontei Ground beetle 10.05.10 - Galerita bicolor Galerita - False Bombardier - Galerita bicolor Beetle - Galerita janus Beetle - Galerita janus Galerita janus? - Galerita janus Galerita janus? - Galerita lecontei
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 Harpalitae
Tribe Galeritini
Genus Galerita (False Bombardier Beetles)
No Taxon subgenus Progaleritina
Explanation of Names
Progaleritina Jeannel 1949
Numbers
7 spp., all in our area(1)
Identification
keys in(2)(3)
Range
NA & West Indies; all the spp. occur in the US (most are restricted to the south), G. janus ranges into Canada, 4 spp. also in Mexico; G. lecontei is the only sp. ranging west into CA and south to Honduras & West Indies (various sspp.)(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.A monographic revision of the American Galeritini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Reichardt H. 1967. Arquivos de Zoologia 15(1-2): 1-176.
3.Synopsis of the species of subgenus Progaleritina Jeannel, including reconstructed phylogeny and geographical history...
Ball G.E., Nimmo A.P. 1983. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 109: 295-356.
Contributed by v belov on 31 March, 2012 - 3:07pm
Last updated 29 May, 2014 - 11:13am

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