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Chlaenius vafer LeConte - Chlaenius vafer Chlaenius vafer LeConte - Chlaenius vafer Chlaenius texanus Horn - Chlaenius texanus 160319C07 - Chlaenius vafer 160319C07 - Chlaenius vafer 160319C07 - Chlaenius vafer 160319C07 - Chlaenius vafer Vivid Metallic Ground Beetle - Chlaenius vafer
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 Chlaeniini
Genus Chlaenius (Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Chlaeniellus)
No Taxon vafer group
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1)
Range
so. US (Gulf states + so.-c. states)(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.