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

Subspecies

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These four subspecies belong to the species Calathus ruficollis:

  • Calathus ruficollis grandicollis Casey, 1920
  • 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

References

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  1. ^ "Calathus ruficollis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. ^ "Calathus ruficollis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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

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  • 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.