Scaphinotus vandykei
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Scaphinotus |
| Species: | S. vandykei
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| Scaphinotus vandykei Roeschke, 1907
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Scaphinotus vandykei, Van Dyke's snail-eating beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae.[1][2][3] It is found in North America[2] (Arizona), where it inhabits coniferous forests, often in areas near water bodies.
Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Scaphinotus vandykei Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ^ a b "Scaphinotus vandykei Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ^ "Scaphinotus vandykei Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ^ A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; M. C. Thomas, eds. (2000). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Erwin, Terry L. (2007). A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Volume I. Trachypachidae, Carabidae - Nebriiformes 1. Pensoft Publishers. pp. 323 + 22 plates. ISBN 978-954-642-2989. ISSN 1312-0174.
- Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
- Riley K, Browne R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys (147): 601–621. doi:10.3897/zookeys.147.2102. PMC 3286241. PMID 22371677.
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