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]
| Calathus ruficollis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Calathus |
| Species: | C. ruficollis
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| Binomial name | |
| Calathus ruficollis Dejean, 1828
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Subspecies edit
These four subspecies belong to the species Calathus ruficollis:
- Calathus ruficollis grandicollis Casey, 1920
- Range: southwestern British Columbia to Humboldt County, California[4]
- Calathus ruficollis guadalupensis Casey, 1897
- Calathus ruficollis ignicollis Casey, 1920
- Range: eastern Washington, western Idaho, south to central California (including Sierra Nevada)[4][5]
- Calathus ruficollis ruficollis Dejean, 1828
- Range: Mendocino County in California to Baja California and southern Arizona. Introduced in Hawaii.[4]
References edit
- ^ "Calathus ruficollis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Calathus ruficollis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Calathus ruficollis species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ a b c 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 edit
- 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.
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