in survey on the abundance and species diversity of arthropods associated with organic and conventional wheat fields which carried out in 2010 and 2011 in mashhad region, a total of 13 species belonging to carabidae family were collected and identified. among the identified species, calosoma auropunctatum dsungaricum gebler (carabinae) and the subspecies poecilus cupreus erythropus dejean (pter...

The subgenus Semiclivina Kult, 1947 of Clivina Latreille, 1802 (sensu lato) has been re-ranked as a genus, with the most readily observed feature being the stridulation organ of the proepisterna and front femora. A group of species within Semiclivina is characterized by a peculiar acute tubercle at the posterior margin of the eye, which corresponds to an equally noticeable incision of the anter...