''Miscodera arctica'' is a species of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

s in the family

Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal ...

, the only species in the genus ''Miscodera''. It is circumpolar in distribution, predominantly northern, with outliers in New Hampshire and Maine Dearborn, R. G., R. E. Nelson, C. Donahue, R. T. Bell, and R. P. Webster, 2014: The Ground-Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Fauna of Maine, U.S.A. ''Coleopterists Bulletin'', vol. 68, no. 3, p. 441-599. in the continental U.S. Its relationships have been long disputed. Here it is placed in subfamily

Broscinae Broscinae is a subfamily of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are more than 30 genera and at least 340 described species in Broscinae. Genera These 34 genera belong to the subfamily Broscinae: * ''Acallistus'' Sharp, 1886 * ''Adote ...

. While it certainly belongs to the more advanced ground beetles, it was alternatively placed in the subfamily

Trechinae Trechinae is a subfamily of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are 6 tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English i ...

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Broscinae Monotypic Carabidae genera Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz {{Broscinae-stub