Calathus ruficollis

Calathus ruficollis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Calathus
Species:	C. ruficollis
Binomial name
Calathus ruficollis Dejean, 1828

Calathus ruficollis is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} It is found in western North America, covering the California Floristic Province and continuing to the Pacific Northwest. ^{[4] [5]} Calathus ruficollis is flightless, predaceous, and nocturnal. ^[5]

Subspecies

These four subspecies belong to the species Calathus ruficollis:

• Calathus ruficollis grandicollisCasey, 1920
  • Range: southwestern British Columbia to Humboldt County, California ^[4]
• Calathus ruficollis guadalupensisCasey, 1897
• Calathus ruficollis ignicollisCasey, 1920
  • Range: eastern Washington, western Idaho, south to central California (including Sierra Nevada) ^{[4] [5]}
• Calathus ruficollis ruficollisDejean, 1828
  • Range: Mendocino County in California to Baja California and southern Arizona. Introduced in Hawaii. ^[4]

References

1. "Calathus ruficollis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Calathus ruficollis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Calathus ruficollis species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 . PMC   3577090 . PMID   23431087.
5. Chatzimanolis, Stylianos; Caterino, Michael S. (19 March 2007). "Limited phylogeographic structure in the flightless ground beetle, Calathus ruficollis , in southern California" . Diversity and Distributions. 13 (5): 498–509. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00352.x. ISSN   1366-9516. S2CID   83750895.

Further reading

• Ball, George E.; Nègre, Jacques (1972). "The Taxonomy of the Nearctic Species of the Genus Calathus Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Agonini)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 98 (4): 413–533. JSTOR   25078119.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-33029-0.