Agonum belleri

Agonum belleri, sometimes called Beller's ground beetle,[2] is a species of ground beetle in the Platyninae subfamily.

Agonum belleri
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A. belleri
Binomial name
Agonum belleri
(Hatch, 1933)
Synonyms[1]
  • Punctagonum elleri Gray, 1937

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]

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References

  1. "Agonum (Olisares) belleri (Hatch, 1933)". Carabidae of the World. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  2. "Ground beetles: Beller's ground beetle (Agonum belleri)". The Xerces Society. Archived from the original on May 28, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
  3. 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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