''Agonum bicolor'' is a species of
ground beetle in the
Platyninae
Platyninae is a subfamily of ground beetles (family Carabidae).
Genera
The subfamily Platyninae contains about 250 genera organized into three tribes:
; Tribe Omphreini Ganglbauer, 1891
: '' Omphreus'' Dejean, 1828
; Tribe Platynini Bonelli, ...
subfamily. It was described by
Dejean in 1828 and is found in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
,
Kazakhstan,
Mongolia and
Russia.
Besides those countries it can be found in the
US state of
Alaska, and
British Columbia,
Canada, where it was discovered in March 1981, on
Bougie Creek. One of such species was found near
Liard River
The Liard River of the North American boreal forest flows through Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Rising in the Saint Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon, it flows southeast through British Co ...
in May 1981.
Subspecies
*''Agonum bicolor bicolor''
*''Agonum bicolor kitanoi''
Habu, 1956 (Japan)
References
Beetles described in 1828
bicolor
Beetles of Asia
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