New Zealand ground-beetle 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.
An alphabetical 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 |
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| Carabidae, dorsal view | Carabidae, ventral view | Carabidae, pronotum and elytron |
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 to New Zealand ground-beetle genera |
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This identification key to the New Zealand Carabidae genera was created using Lucid Phoenix. The Phoenix application is a JAVA-based applet that loads a pathway key that works very much like a traditional dichotomous key. To run the identification key, users need to have the JAVA Virtual Machine (JVM) v1.4.2 or greater installed on their computer.
WARNING! Trechini and Migadopini genera in the key not yet up-to-date with the literature.
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Get JMV | Note: JVM only needs to be installed once for any Lucid Phoenix key to be run thereafter. |
Once the JAVA Virtual Machine is installed users can use the following link or image to open the key:
Open Lucid Phoenix Identification Key to New Zealand Ground-Beetle Genera
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Notes about the current version of this key
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