Genus Zacotus

Genus Zacotus Leconte 1869

Carabidae, Coleoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

Matthew Denton, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505 USA.

01 April 1997


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Identification

Head has irregular, parallel frontal furrows; palpi with broadly truncate terminal segment; antennae with first four segments glabrous; hind wings completely reduced; shoulders obliterated; elytra fused; elytra with set of finely punctate or virtually impunctate stria; elytra with row of four or more punctures along side margin, subhumeral fovea not present.

Range

Contains a single species; North America.


References

Kavanaugh, D. H. 1992. Carabid beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences Number 16. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.

Lindroth, C. H. 1961-1969. The ground beetles (Carabidae excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska. Parts 1-6. Opuscula Entomologica xlviii + 1192 pp.


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