Brachinus texanus

Brachinus texanus is a species of ground beetle in the genus Brachinus ("bombardier beetles"), in the family Carabidae ("ground beetles").[1][2][3] It is found in North America. Like other bombardier beetles, it can spray a boiling, corrosive liquid from its abdomen if provoked, and as such SHOULD NOT be handled.[2]

Brachinus texanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Adephaga
Family:
Carabidae
Subfamily:
Brachininae
Genus:
Brachinus
Species:
B. texanus
Binomial name
Brachinus texanus
Chaudoir, 1868

References
  1. "Brachinus texanus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  2. "Brachinus texanus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  3. "Brachinus texanus Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-21.

Further reading
  • Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (2000). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys, issue 245, 1-1722.
  • Erwin, Terry L. (2011). A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life, volume III. Carabidae - Loxomeriformes, Melaeniformes, 412.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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