''Poecilus'' is a genus of

ground beetle Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), 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 ...

native to the Afro-tropical, the

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(including

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), the

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, and

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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 ''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 abditu ...

'' 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

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''Poecilus'' at Fauna Europaea
Pterostichinae Taxa named by Franco Andrea Bonelli Carabidae genera {{Pterostichinae-stub