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Species Dyschirius globosus

Dyschirius globosus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Scaritinae
Tribe Dyschiriini
Genus Dyschirius
No Taxon (subgenus Dyschiriodes)
No Taxon (globulosus group)
Species globosus (Dyschirius globosus)
Explanation of Names
Dyschirius globosus (Herbst 1784)
Range
native to, and widespread across Europe, adventive in NA (Vancouver, BC area)(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: BC 1978(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.