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CARABIDAE (ground beetles, tiger beetles)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Carabidae? Imago 26 May 2008 South-west Yorkshire England 4 4
Carabidae? Imago 26 May 2008 South-west Yorkshire England 5 4

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs #webs
Species Aepus marinus (Stroem, 1783) (a ground beetle)       1  
Genus Agonum (a genus of ground beetles) 2        
Species Agonum assimile (Paykull, 1790) (a ground beetle)     1    
Species Agonum dorsale (Pontoppidan, 1763) (a ground beetle)   4      
Genus Asaphidion (a genus of ground beetles) 1   1 2  
Genus Badister (a genus of ground beetles) 4 4   4  
Species Blethisa multipunctata (L., 1758) (a ground beetle)       1  
Subfamily BROSCINAE (a subfamily of ground beetles) 1        
Species Broscus cephalotes (L., 1758) (a ground beetle)   8 8    
Genus Calathus (a genus of ground beetles) 1        
Species Calathus fuscipes (Goeze, 1777) (a ground beetle)     2    
Species Calosoma inquisitor (L., 1758) (Caterpillar-hunter)         1
Subfamily CARABINAE (a subfamily of ground beetles) 33 88 70 16 10
Subfamily CICINDELINAE (tiger beetles) 2        
Genus Cicindela (tiger beetles) 2 11   2 1
Species Cillenus lateralis Samouelle (a ground beetle)       1  
Species Drypta dentata (Rossi, 1790) (a ground beetle)       1  
Genus Dyschirius (a genus of ground beetles) 1        
Species Dyschirius obscurus (Gyllenhal, 1827) (a ground beetle)       1  
Subfamily ELAPHRINAE (a subfamily of ground beetles) 2        
Genus Elaphrus (a genus of ground beetles) 2 4 12 1  
Subfamily HARPALINAE (a subfamily of ground beetles) 9 23 5 1 8
Species Laemostenus complanatus (Dejean, 1828) (a ground beetle)       1  
Species Lasiotrechus discus (F.) (a ground beetle)       1  
Genus Lebia (a genus of ground beetles) 3       8
Genus Leistus (a genus of ground beetles) 2 7 8    
Species Odacantha melanura (L., 1767) (a ground beetle)         2
Species Panagaeus bipustulatus (F., 1775) (a ground beetle)     6 1  
Species Pelophila borealis (Paykull, 1790) (a ground beetle)       1  
Genus Stenolophus (a genus of ground beetles) 1        
Species Stenolophus mixtus (Herbst., 1784) (a ground beetle)       1  
Species Trichocellus cognatus (Gyllenhal, 1827) (a ground beetle)         1
Species Zabrus tenebrioides (Goeze, 1777) (a ground beetle)         4

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Forsythe, T.G., 1987 Common Ground Beetles
Forsythe, T.G., 2000 Ground Beetles
Jeannel, R., 1941 Coléoptères Carabiques (2 vols)
Lindroth, C.H., 1974 Coleoptera: Carabidae
Luff, M.L., 2007 The Carabidae (ground beetles) of Britain and Ireland
Entomology: http://volny.cz/midge/ Web Site/Page
Rotheray, G.E., 1989 Aphid Predators
Ground Beetles of Ireland: http://www.habitas.org.uk/groundbeetles/index.html Web Site/Page

General Works

Whitton, P. and Campbell, J.M., 1991 Atlas of Oxfordshire Coleoptera: Carabidae

CARABIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

CARABIDAE is associated with:

There may be taxa associated with Carabidae listed at higher taxonomic level

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

Associated with CARABIDAE:

abdomen, imago abdomen of imago is endoparasitoid host of larva Zaira cinerea - a parasitoid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Foreign Belshaw, R., 1993

Carabidae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

References

Belshaw, R., 1993 Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)

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