Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 209023

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Belongs to Pterostichus according to S. H. Scudder 1900

Sister taxa: Pterostichus (Argutor), Pterostichus (Bothriopterus), Pterostichus (Cryobius), Pterostichus (Eosteropus), Pterostichus (Hypherpes), Pterostichus (Lamenius), Pterostichus (Lenapterus), Pterostichus (Leptoferonia), Pterostichus (Melanius), Pterostichus (Metallophilus), Pterostichus (Phonias), Pterostichus (Pseudomaseus), Pterostichus (Steropus), Pterostichus abnormis, Pterostichus abrogatus, Pterostichus cancellatus, Pterostichus costatus, Pterostichus depletus, Pterostichus destitutus, Pterostichus distinctus, Pterostichus dormitans, Pterostichus fernquisti, Pterostichus fractus, Pterostichus gelidus, Pterostichus gracilis, Pterostichus gurnetensis, Pterostichus laevigatus, Pterostichus melanarius, Pterostichus minor, Pterostichus minutulus, Pterostichus molestus, Pterostichus niger, Pterostichus nigrita, Pterostichus parens, Pterostichus pumpellyi, Pterostichus strenuus, Pterostichus stygicus, Pterostichus sublaevis, Pterostichus tundrae, Pterostichus vernalis, Pterostichus vetustus, Pterostichus walcotti

Type specimen: Hinde 14519, an elytra (elytron fragment). Its type locality is Scarborough Bluffs (Hinde collection), which is in a Pleistocene lacustrine deltaic siltstone in the Scarborough Formation of Canada.

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Average measurements (in mm): elytron 4.75 x 1.47