Agonum belleri
Agonum belleri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Carabidae |
Genus: | Agonum |
Species: | A. belleri |
Binomial name | |
Agonum belleri (Hatch, 1933) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Agonum belleri, sometimes called Beller's ground beetle,[2] is a species of ground beetle in the Platyninae subfamily.
Description
The species are metallic-black in colour.
Distribution
The species can be found only in Pacific Northwest of North America.[2] A. belleri lives in sphagnum bogs.
Taxonomy
The species was named after Samuel Beller, an entomologist who was one of the Melville H. Hatch's pupils.[3]
References
- ↑ "Agonum (Olisares) belleri (Hatch, 1933)". Carabidae of the World. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
- 1 2 "Ground beetles: Beller's ground beetle (Agonum belleri)". The Xerces Society. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
- ↑ Yves Bousquet (2012). Terry Erwin, ed. "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys. Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers. 245: 1216. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
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