Landcare Research - Manaaki Whenua

Landcare-Research -Manaaki Whenua

New Zealand Carabidae genera: Identification guide

This identification guide provides a Lucid Phoenix interactive key to New Zealand ground-beetle genera. Diagnostic characters are fully illustrated and dorsal body images are provided for one representative species of each genus included in the identification key.

A checklist of genera, a glossary of technical terms, and the following schematic views of carabid morphology are also provided to aid identification:

Schematic views of carabid morphology - Click on thumbnails for larger images


In addition, the image gallery provided with the New Zealand Carabidae checklist (Larochelle et al., 2004) contains photos of representatives of most ground-beetle genera occurring in New Zealand.

Key

This identification guide provides a Lucid Phoenix interactive key to New Zealand ground-beetle genera. Diagnostic characters are fully illustrated and dorsal body images are provided for one representative species of each genus included in the identification key.
WARNING! Trechini and Migadopini genera in the key are not yet up-to-date with the literature.

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Notes about the current version of this key

  • Key couplets are illustrated; schematic views of carabid morphology and other complementary identification aids are also available on this website.
  • One full dorsal body image is also included for one representative species of each genus.
  • Although this is an artificial key to genera not necessarily intended to identify carabid tribes, tribal entries have been indicated to underline generic relationships.

lucid_logoThis identification key was created using Lucid Phoenix.

Interactive Lucid key