Pelophila borealis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Nebriinae
Tribus: Pelophilini
Genus: Pelophila
Species: Pelophila borealis
Name

Pelophila borealis (Paykull, 1790: 51)

Type locality: Karungi Botniae occidentalis [Norrbotten County, Sweden].

Synonymy

Carabus borealis Paykull, 1790: 51 [original combination]
Pelophila gebleri Mannerheim, 1823: 38 [Synonymy by Dejean 1833: 22]
Pelophila marginata Mannerheim, 1823: 39 [Synonymy by Dejean 1833: 22]
Pelophila eschscholtzii Mannerheim, 1823: 40 [Synonymy by Dejean 1833: 22, confirmed by Lindroth 1961: 57]
Pelophila elongata Mannerheim, 1823: 41 [Synonymy by Dejean 1833: 22]
Pelophila borealis var. arctica Dejean, 1826: 265 [Synonymy by Dejean 1833: 22]
Pelophila borealis var. dejeanii Dejean, 1826: 265 [Synonymy by Dejean 1833: 22]
Pelophila laevigata Motschulsky, 1844: 92 [Synonymy by Bänninger 1930: 101]
Pelophila californica Motschulsky, 1844: 93 [Synonymy by Bänninger 1930: 101]
Pelophila ochotica R.F. Sahlberg, 1844: 17 [Synonymy by Shilenkov 1994: 9]
Pelophila ulkei G.H. Horn, 1870b: 105 [Synonymy by Lindroth 1961: 57]
Pelophila shermani Casey, 1913: 45 [Synonymy, under the name P. borealis ulkei Horn, by Bänninger 1930: 102, confirmed by Lindroth 1961: 57]

Native distribution areas

from northern Europe to the Bering Sea coast, from Alaska, including the Aleutian and Kodiak Islands, to Newfoundland, south to the Abitibi region in western Quebec.

References
Primary references

Paykull, G.v. 1790. Monographia Caraborum Sueciae. 138 pp. Upsaliae: Johann. Edman. Reference page. [original description: p. 51]

Pelophila borealis is a species of ground beetle in Nebriinae subfamily which was described by Gustaf von Paykull in 1790. The species can be found in Belarus, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. It is black in colour and is shiny. The size of the species is 9.5–10.1 millimetres (0.37–0.40 in) long.[1]
References

"Pelophila borealis (Paykull, 1790)". Carabidae of the World. March 3, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2015.