Coleoptera: Badister ferrugineus

Badister ferrugineus Dejean 1831

Carabidae, Coleoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

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


Identification

Right mandible has a deep transverse notch; prothorax with strong isodiametric microsculpture, making it dull and non-iridescent; prothorax short with well marked hind angles; legs and antennae rufo-piceous or darker; terminal segment of all tarsi with double row of stiff setae underneath. Canadian form of species is entirely black or dark brown or black-brown. California specimens are paler but antennae is always infuscated.

Range

Species is exclusively western, south to California, east to Nevada, and north to British Columbia.


References

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


For information about this page: John T. Longino longinoj@evergreen.edu

Last modified: 04/01/1997