Agonum belleri
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| Agonum belleri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Agonum |
| Species: | A. belleri
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| Binomial name | |
| Agonum belleri (Hatch, 1933)
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Agonum belleri, sometimes called Beller's ground beetle,[2] is a species of ground beetle in the Platyninae subfamily.
Description[edit]
The species are metallic-black in colour.
Distribution[edit]
The species can be found only in Pacific Northwest of North America.[2] A. belleri lives in sphagnum bogs.
Taxonomy[edit]
The species was named after Samuel Beller, an entomologist who was one of the Melville H. Hatch's pupils.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Agonum (Olisares) belleri (Hatch, 1933)". Carabidae of the World. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
- ^ a b "Ground beetles: Beller's ground beetle (Agonum belleri)". The Xerces Society. Archived from the original on May 28, 2012. 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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