Biology:Poecilus

Short description: Genus of beetles

Poecilus
Poecilus versicolor
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Pterostichinae
Tribe:	Pterostichini
Genus:	Poecilus Bonelli, 1810
Subgenera
Ancholeus Dejean, 1828 Carenostylus Chaudoir, 1838 Derus Motschulsky, 1844 Lyropedius Seidlitz, 1887 Metapedius A.Fiori, 1903 Parapedius Seidlitz, 1887 Poecilus Bonelli, 1810 Pseudoderus Seidlitz, 1887

Poecilus lucublandus

Poecilus chalcites, Oklahoma, USA

Poecilus lepidus, Denmark

Poecilus is a genus of ground beetle native to the Afro-tropical, the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East, North Africa, and North America regions.

Species

These 144 species belong to the genus Poecilus:

• Poecilus abditus (Lutshnik, 1934)
• Poecilus advena (Quensel, 1806)
• Poecilus aegyptius (Tschitscherine, 1897)
• Poecilus aeneolus (Chaudoir, 1868)
• Poecilus aerarius (Coquerel, 1859)
• Poecilus akinini Tschitscherine, 1887
• Poecilus alexandrae (Tschitscherine, 1889)
• Poecilus alutaceus (Tschitscherine, 1893)
• Poecilus anatolicus (Chaudoir, 1850)
• Poecilus anodon (Chaudoir, 1868)
• Poecilus aralensis (Glasunov, 1909)
• Poecilus aztecus (Tschitscherine, 1897)
• Poecilus baeticus Rambur, 1838
• Poecilus balassogloi Tschitscherine, 1887
• Poecilus batesianus (Lutshnik, 1916)
• Poecilus beesoni (Andrewes, 1927)
• Poecilus bogatshevi (Kryzhanovskij, 1983)
• Poecilus bokori (Csiki, 1930)
• Poecilus bonvoisini (Reiche & Saulcy, 1855)
• Poecilus campania (Andrewes, 1937)
• Poecilus carbonicolor Solsky, 1874
• Poecilus chalcites (Say, 1823)
• Poecilus chinensis (Jedlicka, 1962)
• Poecilus coarctatus Lucas, 1842
• Poecilus coloradensis (Csiki, 1930)
• Poecilus corvus (LeConte, 1873)
• Poecilus crenulatus (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus crenuliger Chaudoir, 1876
• Poecilus crimeanus (Straneo, 1960)
• Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Poecilus cursitor LeConte, 1853
• Poecilus cursorius (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus curtonotoides Kabak, 1997
• Poecilus cyanicolor Chaudoir, 1876
• Poecilus decipiens Waltl, 1835
• Poecilus diplophryus Chaudoir, 1876
• Poecilus dissors (Tschitscherine, 1893)
• Poecilus effrenus (Lutshnik, 1930)
• Poecilus encopoleus Solsky, 1873
• Poecilus excellens (Tschitscherine, 1895)
• Poecilus exilicaudis Kabak, 1998
• Poecilus festivus (Chaudoir, 1868)
• Poecilus fortipes (Chaudoir, 1850)
• Poecilus gaturs (Davies, 2004)
• Poecilus gebleri (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus gisellae (Csiki, 1930)
• Poecilus gobiensis (Jedlicka, 1968)
• Poecilus gonioderus (Tschitscherine, 1901)
• Poecilus gotschii (Chaudoir, 1846)
• Poecilus grombczewskyi (Tschitscherine, 1891)
• Poecilus grumi (Tschitscherine, 1898)
• Poecilus gurjevae Kabak, 1994
• Poecilus hafezi (Morvan, 1975)
• Poecilus hanhaicus (Tschitscherine, 1894)
• Poecilus houskai (Jedlicka, 1952)
• Poecilus ilgazdensis (Jedlicka, 1961)
• Poecilus innatus (Glasunov, 1909)
• Poecilus iranicus (Morvan, 1974)
• Poecilus isfanensis Kabak, 1998
• Poecilus ispulensis Kabak, 1994
• Poecilus jakutorum (Poppius, 1904)
• Poecilus janthinipennis Solsky, 1874
• Poecilus jarkendis (Jedlicka, 1965)
• Poecilus kabulensis (Jedlicka, 1956)
• Poecilus kekesiensis Nyilas, 1993
• Poecilus kizbaiensis Kabak, 1994
• Poecilus korbi (Tschitscherine, 1893)
• Poecilus koslovi (Tschitscherine, 1903)
• Poecilus koyi Germar, 1823
• Poecilus kraatzii (Heyden, 1882)
• Poecilus kugelanni (Panzer, 1796)
• Poecilus laetulus (LeConte, 1863)
• Poecilus laevicollis Chaudoir, 1842
• Poecilus laevigatus (L.Dufour, 1820)
• Poecilus lamproderus (Chaudoir, 1868)
• Poecilus lepidus (Leske, 1785)
• Poecilus leptoderus Solsky, 1874
• Poecilus liosomus Chaudoir, 1876
• Poecilus longiventris Solsky, 1874
• Poecilus lucasii (Reiche, 1861)
• Poecilus lucublandus (Say, 1823)
• Poecilus lyroderus (Chaudoir, 1846)
• Poecilus major (Motschulsky, 1844)
• Poecilus melanochrus (Tschitscherine, 1901)
• Poecilus mesembrinus (Tschitscherine, 1896)
• Poecilus mexicanus Chaudoir, 1876
• Poecilus mongoliensis (Jedlicka, 1962)
• Poecilus muchei (Jedlicka, 1961)
• Poecilus nearcticus (Lindroth, 1966)
• Poecilus nemotoi (Straneo, 1989)
• Poecilus nigripalpis (Jedlicka, 1963)
• Poecilus nitens (Chaudoir, 1850)
• Poecilus nitidicollis Motschulsky, 1844
• Poecilus nitidus (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus occidentalis (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus oirat Kabak, 1994
• Poecilus ovtshinnikovi Kabak, 1994
• Poecilus pantanellii (A.Fiori, 1903)
• Poecilus peregrinus (Tschitscherine, 1898)
• Poecilus pertusus (Schaum, 1858)
• Poecilus pharao (Lutshnik, 1916)
• Poecilus polychromus (Tschitscherine, 1889)
• Poecilus prasinotinctus (Csiki, 1930)
• Poecilus pseudopurpurascens (Kirschenhofer, 1987)
• Poecilus pucholti (Jedlicka, 1962)
• Poecilus puer Kabak, 1997
• Poecilus punctibasis (Chaudoir, 1868)
• Poecilus puncticollis (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus punctulatus (Schaller, 1783)
• Poecilus purpurascens (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus quadricollis (Dejean, 1828)
• Poecilus ravus (Lutshnik, 1922)
• Poecilus rebeli (Apfelbeck, 1904)
• Poecilus reflexicollis Gebler, 1832
• Poecilus reicheianus (Peyron, 1858)
• Poecilus rostowtzowi (Tschitscherine, 1899)
• Poecilus samojedorum (J.Sahlberg, 1880)
• Poecilus samurai (Lutshnik, 1916)
• Poecilus schamsiensis (Poppius, 1908)
• Poecilus scitulus LeConte, 1846
• Poecilus slivkini Kabak, 1994
• Poecilus soederbomi (Jedlicka, 1935)
• Poecilus songinus (Jedlicka, 1968)
• Poecilus spectus (Jedlicka, 1962)
• Poecilus stenoderus (Chaudoir, 1846)
• Poecilus striatopunctatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
• Poecilus subcoeruleus (Quensel, 1806)
• Poecilus subsimilis (Tschitscherine, 1893)
• Poecilus syriensis (Jedlicka, 1957)
• Poecilus szepligetii (Csiki, 1908)
• Poecilus tarimensis (Tschitscherine, 1896)
• Poecilus tengrensis (Jedlicka, 1960)
• Poecilus texanus (LeConte, 1863)
• Poecilus timuri Kabak, 1994
• Poecilus toxanbaicus (Kabak, 1990)
• Poecilus tschitscherini (Semenov, 1891)
• Poecilus turkestanicus Reitter, 1891
• Poecilus urgens (Tschitscherine, 1898)
• Poecilus uygur Kabak, 1997
• Poecilus versicolor (Sturm, 1824)
• Poecilus vicinus Levrat, 1858
• Poecilus wollastoni (Wollaston, 1854)
• Poecilus zaballosi Jeanne & Ruiz-Tapiador, 1995
• Poecilus zhicharevi (Lutshnik, 1933)

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1307678 entry

• Poecilus at Fauna Europaea

Wikidata ☰ Q1307678 entry