''Poecilus'' is a genus of
ground beetle native to the
Afro-tropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
region, the
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
(including
Europe), the
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
, and
North Africa.
It contains the following species:
* ''
Poecilus abditus''
Lutshnik, 1934
* ''
Poecilus advena''
Quensel, 1806
* ''
Poecilus aegyptius''
( Tschitscherine, 1897)
* ''
Poecilus aeneolus''
(Chaudoir, 1868)
* ''
Poecilus aerarius''
(Coquerel, 1859)
* ''
Poecilus affinissimus''
(Ali, 1967)
* ''
Poecilus akinini''
Tschitscherine, 1887
* ''
Poecilus alexandrae''
Tschitscherine, 1889
* ''
Poecilus alutaceus''
(Tschitscherine, 1893)
* ''
Poecilus anatolicus''
(Chaudoir, 1850)
* ''
Poecilus anodon''
(Chaudoir, 1868)
* ''
Poecilus aralensis''
Glasunov, 1909
* ''
Poecilus aztecus''
(Tschitscherine, 1897)
* ''
Poecilus baeticus''
Rambur, 1838
* ''
Poecilus balassogloi''
(Tschitscherine, 1887)
* ''
Poecilus batesianus''
Lutshnik, 1916
* ''
Poecilus beesoni''
(Andrewes, 1927)
* ''
Poecilus bokori''
Csiki, 1930
* ''
Poecilus bonvoisini''
(Reiche & Saulcy, 1855)
* ''
Poecilus carbonicolor''
Solsky, 1874
* ''
Poecilus chalcites''
(Say, 1823)
* ''
Poecilus chinensis''
Jedlicka, 1962
* ''
Poecilus coarctatus''
Lucas, 1842
* ''
Poecilus coloradensis''
(Csiki, 1930)
* ''
Poecilus corvus''
(LeConte, 1837)
* ''
Poecilus crenatus''
(Dejean, 1828)
* ''
Poecilus crenulatus''
Dejean, 1828
* ''
Poecilus crenuliger''
Chaudoir, 1876
* ''
Poecilus crimeanus''
Straneo, 1960
* ''
Poecilus cupreus
''Poecilus cupreus'' is a species of ground beetle native to the Palearctic (including Europe). In Europe, it is found in almost every country, and is only absent in a number of small states and islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, ...
''
Linne, 1758
* ''
Poecilus cursitor''
LeConte, 1852
* ''
Poecilus cursorius''
Dejean, 1828
* ''
Poecilus curtonotoides''
Kabak, 1997
* ''
Poecilus cyanicolor''
Chaudoir, 1876
* ''
Poecilus decipiens''
Wallt, 1835
* ''
Poecilus diplophryus''
Chaudoir, 1876
* ''
Poecilus dissors''
(Tschitscherine, 1893)
* ''
Poecilus effrenus''
(Lutshnik, 1930)
* ''
Poecilus encopoleus''
Solsky, 1873
* ''
Poecilus excellens''
(Tschitscherine, 1895)
* ''
Poecilus exilicaudis''
Kabak, 1998
* ''
Poecilus festivus''
(Chaudoir, 1868)
* ''
Poecilus fortipes''
(Chaudoir, 1850)
* ''
Poecilus gaturs''
(Davies, 2004)
* ''
Poecilus gebleri''
(Dejean, 1828)
* ''
Poecilus gobiensis''
(Jedlicka, 1968)
* ''
Poecilus gonioderus''
(Tschitscherine, 1901)
* ''
Poecilus gotschii''
(Chaudoir, 1846)
* ''
Poecilus grombczewskyi''
(Tschitscherine, 1890)
* ''
Poecilus grumi''
(Tschitscherine, 1898)
* ''
Poecilus gurjevae''
Kabak, 1994
* ''
Poecilus hafezi''
Morvan, 1975
* ''
Poecilus hanhaicus''
(Tschitscherine, 1894)
* ''
Poecilus houskai''
(Jedlicka, 1952)
* ''
Poecilus ilgazdensis''
Jedlicka, 1961
* ''
Poecilus innatus''
Glasunov, 1909
* ''
Poecilus iranicus''
(Morvan, 1974)
* ''
Poecilus isfanensis''
Kabak, 1998
* ''
Poecilus ispulensis''
Kabak, 1994
* ''
Poecilus jacutorum''
Poppius, 1904
* ''
Poecilus janthinipennis''
Solsky, 1874
* ''
Poecilus kabulensis''
(Jedlicka, 1956)
* ''
Poecilus kaschgaricus''
(Jedlicka, 1957)
* ''
Poecilus kekesiensis''
Nyilas, 1993
* ''
Poecilus kizbaiensis''
Kabak, 1994
* ''
Poecilus korbi''
(Tschitschcrine, 1893)
* ''
Poecilus koyi''
Germar, 1824
* ''
Poecilus kozlovi''
Tschitscherine, 1903
* ''
Poecilus kraatzii''
(Heyden, 1882)
* ''
Poecilus kugelanni''
(Panzer, 1797)
* ''
Poecilus laetulus''
(LeConte, 1863)
* ''
Poecilus laevicollis''
Chaudoir, 1842
* ''
Poecilus laevigatus''
(L. Dufour, 1820)
* ''
Poecilus lamproderus''
(Chaudoir, 1868)
* ''
Poecilus lepidus''
(Leske, 1785)
* ''
Poecilus leptoderus''
Solsky, 1874
* ''
Poecilus liosomus''
Chaudoir, 1876
* ''
Poecilus longiventris''
Solsky, 1874
* ''
Poecilus lucasii''
(Reiche, 1861)
* ''
Poecilus lucublandus''
(Say, 1823)
* ''
Poecilus major''
Motschulsky, 1844
* ''
Poecilus melanochrous''
(Tschitscherine, 1901)
* ''
Poecilus mesembrinus''
Tschitscherine, 1896
* ''
Poecilus mexicanus''
Chaudoir, 1876
* ''
Poecilus mongoliensis''
(Jedlicka, 1962)
* ''
Poecilus muchei''
(Jedlicka, 1961)
* ''
Poecilus nemotoi''
(Straneo, 1989)
* ''
Poecilus nigripalpis''
(Jedlicka, 1963)
* ''
Poecilus nitens''
(Chaudoir, 1850)
* ''
Poecilus nitidicollis''
Motschulsky, 1844
* ''
Poecilus nitidus''
(Dejean, 1828)
* ''
Poecilus occidentalis''
(Dejean, 1828)
* ''
Poecilus oirat''
Kabak, 1994
* ''
Poecilus ovtshinnikovi''
Kabak, 1994
* ''
Poecilus pantanellii''
A. Fiori, 1903
* ''
Poecilus peregrinus''
(Tschitscherine, 1898)
* ''
Poecilus pertusus''
(Schaum, 1858)
* ''
Poecilus pharao''
(Lutshnik, 1916)
* ''
Poecilus polychromus''
Tschitscherine, 1889
* ''
Poecilus prasinotinctus''
(Csiki, 1930)
* ''
Poecilus pseudopurpurascens''
(Kirschenhofer, 1987)
* ''
Poecilus pucholti''
(Jedlicka, 1962)
* ''
Poecilus puer''
Kabak, 1997
* ''
Poecilus punctibasis''
(Chaudoir, 1868)
* ''
Poecilus puncticollis''
(Dejean, 1828)
* ''
Poecilus punctulatus''
Schaller, 1783
* ''
Poecilus purpurascens''
(Dejean, 1828)
* ''
Poecilus quadricollis''
(Dejean, 1828)
* ''
Poecilus ravus''
Lutshnik, 1922
* ''
Poecilus rebeli''
(Apfelbeck, 1904)
* ''
Poecilus reflexicollis''
Gebler, 1832
* ''
Poecilus reicheianus''
(Peyron, 1858)
* ''
Poecilus rostowtzowi''
(Tschitscherine, 1899)
* ''
Poecilus samojedorum''
J.R. Sahlberg, 1880
* ''
Poecilus samurai''
(Lutshnik, 1916)
* ''
Poecilus schamsiensis''
(Poppius, 1908)
* ''
Poecilus scitulus''
LeConte, 1848
* ''
Poecilus sericeus''
Fischer von Waldheim, 1824
* ''
Poecilus slivkini''
Kabak, 1994
* ''
Poecilus soederbomi''
(Jedlicka, 1935)
* ''
Poecilus songinus''
(Jedlicka, 1968)
* ''
Poecilus spectus''
(Jedlicka, 1962)
* ''
Poecilus stenoderus''
(Chaudoir, 1846)
* ''
Poecilus striatopunctatus''
(Duftschmid, 1812)
* ''
Poecilus subcoeruleus''
(Quensel, 1806)
* ''
Poecilus subsimilis''
(Tschitscherine, 1893)
* ''
Poecilus syriensis''
(Jedlicka, 1957)
* ''
Poecilus szepligetii''
Csiki, 1908
* ''
Poecilus tarimensis''
Tschitscherine, 1896
* ''
Poecilus tengrensis''
Jedlicka, 1960
* ''
Poecilus texanus''
(LeConte, 1863)
* ''
Poecilus timuri''
Kabak, 1994
* ''
Poecilus toxanbaicus''
Kabak, 1990
* ''
Poecilus tschitscherini''
(Semenov, 1891)
* ''
Poecilus turkestanicus''
Reitter, 1891
* ''
Poecilus urgens''
Tschitscherine, 1898
* ''
Poecilus uygur''
Kabak, 1997
* ''
Poecilus versicolor''
(Sturm, 1824)
* ''
Poecilus vicinus''
Levrat, 1858
* ''
Poecilus vicinus''
Levrat, 1858
* ''
Poecilus wollastoni''
(Wollaston, 1854)
* ''
Poecilus zaballosi''
Jeanne & Ruiz-Tapiador, 1996
* ''
Poecilus zhicharevi''
Lutshnik, 1933
References
External links
''Poecilus'' at Fauna Europaea
Pterostichinae
Taxa named by Franco Andrea Bonelli
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