Poecilus

Genus of beetles

Poecilus

Poecilus versicolor
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Carabidae
Subfamily:  | Pterostichinae
Tribe:  | Pterostichini
Genus:  | Poecilus
Bonelli, 1810
Subgenera

* Ancholeus Dejean, 1828
* Carenostylus Chaudoir, 1838
* Derus Motschulsky, 1844
* Lyropedius Seidlitz, 1887
* Metapedius A.Fiori, 1903
* Parapedius Seidlitz, 1887
* Poecilus Bonelli, 1810
* Pseudoderus Seidlitz, 1887

Poecilus lucublandus Poecilus chalcites, Oklahoma, USA Poecilus lepidus, Denmark

Poecilus is a genus of ground beetle native to the Afro-tropical, the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East, North Africa, and North America regions.[1][2][3]

## Species

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These 144 species belong to the genus Poecilus:[1][2]

* Poecilus abditus (Lutshnik, 1934)
* Poecilus advena (Quensel, 1806)
* Poecilus aegyptius (Tschitscherine, 1897)
* Poecilus aeneolus (Chaudoir, 1868)
* Poecilus aerarius (Coquerel, 1859)
* 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 bogatshevi (Kryzhanovskij, 1983)
* Poecilus bokori (Csiki, 1930)
* Poecilus bonvoisini (Reiche & Saulcy, 1855)
* Poecilus campania (Andrewes, 1937)
* Poecilus carbonicolor Solsky, 1874
* Poecilus chalcites (Say, 1823)
* Poecilus chinensis (Jedlicka, 1962)
* Poecilus coarctatus Lucas, 1842
* Poecilus coloradensis (Csiki, 1930)
* Poecilus corvus (LeConte, 1873)
* Poecilus crenulatus (Dejean, 1828)
* Poecilus crenuliger Chaudoir, 1876
* Poecilus crimeanus (Straneo, 1960)
* Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Poecilus cursitor LeConte, 1853
* Poecilus cursorius (Dejean, 1828)
* Poecilus curtonotoides Kabak, 1997
* Poecilus cyanicolor Chaudoir, 1876
* Poecilus decipiens Waltl, 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 gisellae (Csiki, 1930)
* Poecilus gobiensis (Jedlicka, 1968)
* Poecilus gonioderus (Tschitscherine, 1901)
* Poecilus gotschii (Chaudoir, 1846)
* Poecilus grombczewskyi (Tschitscherine, 1891)
* 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 jakutorum (Poppius, 1904)
* Poecilus janthinipennis Solsky, 1874
* Poecilus jarkendis (Jedlicka, 1965)
* Poecilus kabulensis (Jedlicka, 1956)
* Poecilus kekesiensis Nyilas, 1993
* Poecilus kizbaiensis Kabak, 1994
* Poecilus korbi (Tschitscherine, 1893)
* Poecilus koslovi (Tschitscherine, 1903)
* Poecilus koyi Germar, 1823
* Poecilus kraatzii (Heyden, 1882)
* Poecilus kugelanni (Panzer, 1796)
* 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 lyroderus (Chaudoir, 1846)
* Poecilus major (Motschulsky, 1844)
* Poecilus melanochrus (Tschitscherine, 1901)
* Poecilus mesembrinus (Tschitscherine, 1896)
* Poecilus mexicanus Chaudoir, 1876
* Poecilus mongoliensis (Jedlicka, 1962)
* Poecilus muchei (Jedlicka, 1961)
* Poecilus nearcticus (Lindroth, 1966)
* 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.Sahlberg, 1880)
* Poecilus samurai (Lutshnik, 1916)
* Poecilus schamsiensis (Poppius, 1908)
* Poecilus scitulus LeConte, 1846
* 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 wollastoni (Wollaston, 1854)
* Poecilus zaballosi Jeanne & Ruiz-Tapiador, 1995
* Poecilus zhicharevi (Lutshnik, 1933)

## References

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1. ^ a b Lorenz, Wolfgang (2021). "Carabcat Database". doi:10.48580/dfqf-3dk. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
2. ^ a b "Poecilus Bonelli, 1810". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
3. ^ "Poecilus Bonelli, 1810". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 2023-04-22.

## External links

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* Media related to Poecilus at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Poecilus|

* Wikidata: Q1307678
* Wikispecies: Poecilus
* BioLib: 4052
* BOLD: 6810
* BugGuide: 23350
* CoL: 8KWT3
* EoL: 2868596
* EPPO: 1POCLG
* Fauna Europaea: 379495
* Fauna Europaea (new): c36e4c3b-611c-4b6e-813c-4cc600256952
* GBIF: 7927877
* iNaturalist: 131921
* ITIS: 931441
* NBN: NHMSYS0001719648
* NCBI: 170319
* Open Tree of Life: 121426
* Paleobiology Database: 283803
* Plazi: EB2C87C2-FF80-FFC1-5EBF-FF2BFB27681E
* uBio: 4304773
* ZooBank: DB4BAF99-E3D0-43F2-898F-EF67D55060E3

* Poecilus at Fauna Europaea

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Poecilus.

Wikispecies has information related to Poecilus.

Taxon identifiers

Poecilus|

* Wikidata: Q1307678
* Wikispecies: Poecilus
* BioLib: 4052
* BOLD: 6810
* BugGuide: 23350
* CoL: 8KWT3
* EoL: 2868596
* EPPO: 1POCLG
* Fauna Europaea: 379495
* Fauna Europaea (new): c36e4c3b-611c-4b6e-813c-4cc600256952
* GBIF: 7927877
* iNaturalist: 131921
* ITIS: 931441
* NBN: NHMSYS0001719648
* NCBI: 170319
* Open Tree of Life: 121426
* Paleobiology Database: 283803
* Plazi: EB2C87C2-FF80-FFC1-5EBF-FF2BFB27681E
* uBio: 4304773
* ZooBank: DB4BAF99-E3D0-43F2-898F-EF67D55060E3

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