Poecilus is a genus of ground beetle native to the Afro-tropical, the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East, North Africa, and North America regions.
Species These 144 species belong to the genus Poecilus:
Poecilus abditus (Lutshnik, 1934) Poecilus advena (Quensel, 1806) Poecilus aegyptius (Tschitscherine, 1897) Poecilus aeneolus (Chaudoir, 1868) Poecilus aerarius (Coquerel, 1859) Poecilus akinini Tschitscherine, 1887 Poecilus alexandrae (Tschitscherine, 1889) Poecilus alutaceus (Tschitscherine, 1893) Poecilus anatolicus (Chaudoir, 1850) Poecilus anodon (Chaudoir, 1868) Poecilus aralensis (Glasunov, 1909) Poecilus aztecus (Tschitscherine, 1897) Poecilus baeticus Rambur, 1838 Poecilus balassogloi Tschitscherine, 1887 Poecilus batesianus (Lutshnik, 1916) Poecilus beesoni (Andrewes, 1927) Poecilus bogatshevi (Kryzhanovskij, 1983) Poecilus bokori (Csiki, 1930) Poecilus bonvoisini (Reiche & Saulcy, 1855) Poecilus campania (Andrewes, 1937) Poecilus carbonicolor Solsky, 1874 Poecilus chalcites (Say, 1823) Poecilus chinensis (Jedlicka, 1962) Poecilus coarctatus Lucas, 1842 Poecilus coloradensis (Csiki, 1930) Poecilus corvus (LeConte, 1873) Poecilus crenulatus (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus crenuliger Chaudoir, 1876 Poecilus crimeanus (Straneo, 1960) Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758) Poecilus cursitor LeConte, 1853 Poecilus cursorius (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus curtonotoides Kabak, 1997 Poecilus cyanicolor Chaudoir, 1876 Poecilus decipiens Waltl, 1835 Poecilus diplophryus Chaudoir, 1876 Poecilus dissors (Tschitscherine, 1893) Poecilus effrenus (Lutshnik, 1930) Poecilus encopoleus Solsky, 1873 Poecilus excellens (Tschitscherine, 1895) Poecilus exilicaudis Kabak, 1998 Poecilus festivus (Chaudoir, 1868) Poecilus fortipes (Chaudoir, 1850) Poecilus gaturs (Davies, 2004) Poecilus gebleri (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus gisellae (Csiki, 1930) Poecilus gobiensis (Jedlicka, 1968) Poecilus gonioderus (Tschitscherine, 1901) Poecilus gotschii (Chaudoir, 1846) Poecilus grombczewskyi (Tschitscherine, 1891) Poecilus grumi (Tschitscherine, 1898) Poecilus gurjevae Kabak, 1994 Poecilus hafezi (Morvan, 1975) Poecilus hanhaicus (Tschitscherine, 1894) Poecilus houskai (Jedlicka, 1952) Poecilus ilgazdensis (Jedlicka, 1961) Poecilus innatus (Glasunov, 1909) Poecilus iranicus (Morvan, 1974) Poecilus isfanensis Kabak, 1998 Poecilus ispulensis Kabak, 1994 Poecilus jakutorum (Poppius, 1904) Poecilus janthinipennis Solsky, 1874 Poecilus jarkendis (Jedlicka, 1965) Poecilus kabulensis (Jedlicka, 1956) Poecilus kekesiensis Nyilas, 1993 Poecilus kizbaiensis Kabak, 1994 Poecilus korbi (Tschitscherine, 1893) Poecilus koslovi (Tschitscherine, 1903) Poecilus koyi Germar, 1823 Poecilus kraatzii (Heyden, 1882) Poecilus kugelanni (Panzer, 1796) Poecilus laetulus (LeConte, 1863) Poecilus laevicollis Chaudoir, 1842 Poecilus laevigatus (L.Dufour, 1820) Poecilus lamproderus (Chaudoir, 1868) Poecilus lepidus (Leske, 1785) Poecilus leptoderus Solsky, 1874 Poecilus liosomus Chaudoir, 1876 Poecilus longiventris Solsky, 1874 Poecilus lucasii (Reiche, 1861) Poecilus lucublandus (Say, 1823) Poecilus lyroderus (Chaudoir, 1846) Poecilus major (Motschulsky, 1844) Poecilus melanochrus (Tschitscherine, 1901) Poecilus mesembrinus (Tschitscherine, 1896) Poecilus mexicanus Chaudoir, 1876 Poecilus mongoliensis (Jedlicka, 1962) Poecilus muchei (Jedlicka, 1961) Poecilus nearcticus (Lindroth, 1966) Poecilus nemotoi (Straneo, 1989) Poecilus nigripalpis (Jedlicka, 1963) Poecilus nitens (Chaudoir, 1850) Poecilus nitidicollis Motschulsky, 1844 Poecilus nitidus (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus occidentalis (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus oirat Kabak, 1994 Poecilus ovtshinnikovi Kabak, 1994 Poecilus pantanellii (A.Fiori, 1903) Poecilus peregrinus (Tschitscherine, 1898) Poecilus pertusus (Schaum, 1858) Poecilus pharao (Lutshnik, 1916) Poecilus polychromus (Tschitscherine, 1889) Poecilus prasinotinctus (Csiki, 1930) Poecilus pseudopurpurascens (Kirschenhofer, 1987) Poecilus pucholti (Jedlicka, 1962) Poecilus puer Kabak, 1997 Poecilus punctibasis (Chaudoir, 1868) Poecilus puncticollis (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus punctulatus (Schaller, 1783) Poecilus purpurascens (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus quadricollis (Dejean, 1828) Poecilus ravus (Lutshnik, 1922) Poecilus rebeli (Apfelbeck, 1904) Poecilus reflexicollis Gebler, 1832 Poecilus reicheianus (Peyron, 1858) Poecilus rostowtzowi (Tschitscherine, 1899) Poecilus samojedorum (J.Sahlberg, 1880) Poecilus samurai (Lutshnik, 1916) Poecilus schamsiensis (Poppius, 1908) Poecilus scitulus LeConte, 1846 Poecilus slivkini Kabak, 1994 Poecilus soederbomi (Jedlicka, 1935) Poecilus songinus (Jedlicka, 1968) Poecilus spectus (Jedlicka, 1962) Poecilus stenoderus (Chaudoir, 1846) Poecilus striatopunctatus (Duftschmid, 1812) Poecilus subcoeruleus (Quensel, 1806) Poecilus subsimilis (Tschitscherine, 1893) Poecilus syriensis (Jedlicka, 1957) Poecilus szepligetii (Csiki, 1908) Poecilus tarimensis (Tschitscherine, 1896) Poecilus tengrensis (Jedlicka, 1960) Poecilus texanus (LeConte, 1863) Poecilus timuri Kabak, 1994 Poecilus toxanbaicus (Kabak, 1990) Poecilus tschitscherini (Semenov, 1891) Poecilus turkestanicus Reitter, 1891 Poecilus urgens (Tschitscherine, 1898) Poecilus uygur Kabak, 1997 Poecilus versicolor (Sturm, 1824) Poecilus vicinus Levrat, 1858 Poecilus wollastoni (Wollaston, 1854) Poecilus zaballosi Jeanne & Ruiz-Tapiador, 1995 Poecilus zhicharevi (Lutshnik, 1933)
References
External links
Poecilus at Fauna Europaea