Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 209027

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 destructus, Pterostichus distinctus, Pterostichus dormitans, Pterostichus fernquisti, Pterostichus fractus, Pterostichus gelidus, Pterostichus gracilis, Pterostichus gurnetensis, 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: Its type locality is Port Kennedy Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Pennsylvania

Ecology:

Average measurements (in mm): body width 5.50, elytron width 2.50