Carabidae: Loricera decempunctata

Loricera decempunctata Eschscholtz 1833

Carabidae, Coleoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia

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

01 April 1997


Identification

Small sized (7.2-8.1 mm) with black body; appendages with a faint bronzy lustre; prothorax with sinuate sides before the rectangular hind angles; frons with isodiametric microsculpture; elytra with two foveae on the seventh interval; antennal scape elongate, almost as long as the combined lengths of the second through fourth antennomeres.

Range

West coastal north to Kodiak Island, south to northwestern California, east of the coast region only in southern British Columbia.

Natural History

Found in moist areas from above sea level to just below treeline on mountain peaks. On the Queen Charlotte islands, adults and larvae live in proximity of streams, ponds, lakes, bogs, marshes or small seeps on moist, organic substate. Adults are macropterous and probably capable of short range flight.


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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Last modified: 04/01/1997