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Scaphinotus marginatus
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Identification:
Medium sized, black with a faintly bluish or violaceous fore body and bright coppery to black elytra; elytral margins with bluish, greenish, violaceous or golden lustre; prothorax with prolongation of lateral basal foveae to before middle of the disc; elytral sculpture rougher than in S. angusticollis, with 14-16 deep punctured irregular striae. Males have protarsi with four moderately dilated segments.
Range:
Western North America from northern California to Aleutian Islands and Alaskan peninsula; east to western Montana, Wyoming and central Alberta.
Natural History:
This species is widespread (eurytopic) and found in most habitats from sea level to above timberline in open country, supratidal meadows, deciduous and coniferous forest, and synanthropic sites.
References:
Kavanaugh, D. H. 1992. Carabid beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences Number 16. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.
Lindroth, C. H. 1961-1969. The ground beetles (Carabidae excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska. Parts 1-6. Opuscula Entomologica xlviii + 1192 pp.
Last updated Friday, July 21, 2006, by Lisa Ferrier
