Mecodema crenicolle | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Carabidae |
Genus: | Mecodema |
Species: | M. crenicolle
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Binomial name | |
Mecodema crenicolle Laporte de Castelnau, 1867
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Synonyms | |
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Mecodema crenicolle is an endemic species of ground beetle from New Zealand.
This species was described by François-Louis Laporte de Castelnau, a french naturalist in 1867. The type specimen is in the Genoa Museum, Italy. [2]
Mecodema crenicolle is a medium-large ground beetle with a length of 22–29 mm. As a member of the ducale group of Mecodema species, the pronotum carina is strongly crenulated and outer striae are coarsely punctured with star-shaped asetose punctures. These punctures are irregularly placed and deeper in the outer striae. A distinguishing character of M. crenicolle from its sister species, M. crenaticolle [3] is that the punctures in elytral stria 7 are larger than stria 8 and cannot be distinguished at the base of the elytra. [2]
M. crenicolle is a burrowing ground beetle that lives in native forests, pine plantations and pastures. Their elevational distribution ranges from lowland to mountainous forests. [4] Like all Mecodema species, M. crenicolle is flightless and a predator of other invertebrates. [4]
This species is only found in the in Marlborough, Nelson and the Brunner District in the South Island. [4] [2] North Island specimens are all M. crenaticolle as per Seldon & Buckley (2019).
Mecodema crenicolle | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Carabidae |
Genus: | Mecodema |
Species: | M. crenicolle
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Binomial name | |
Mecodema crenicolle Laporte de Castelnau, 1867
[1]
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Synonyms | |
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Mecodema crenicolle is an endemic species of ground beetle from New Zealand.
This species was described by François-Louis Laporte de Castelnau, a french naturalist in 1867. The type specimen is in the Genoa Museum, Italy. [2]
Mecodema crenicolle is a medium-large ground beetle with a length of 22–29 mm. As a member of the ducale group of Mecodema species, the pronotum carina is strongly crenulated and outer striae are coarsely punctured with star-shaped asetose punctures. These punctures are irregularly placed and deeper in the outer striae. A distinguishing character of M. crenicolle from its sister species, M. crenaticolle [3] is that the punctures in elytral stria 7 are larger than stria 8 and cannot be distinguished at the base of the elytra. [2]
M. crenicolle is a burrowing ground beetle that lives in native forests, pine plantations and pastures. Their elevational distribution ranges from lowland to mountainous forests. [4] Like all Mecodema species, M. crenicolle is flightless and a predator of other invertebrates. [4]
This species is only found in the in Marlborough, Nelson and the Brunner District in the South Island. [4] [2] North Island specimens are all M. crenaticolle as per Seldon & Buckley (2019).