Pterostichus melanarius (ground beetle)

Abundance: 0.03 to 66.72% (median 5.00%)

Latitudinal range: 40.6° to 60.3°

Habitats: boreal forest/taiga (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (5), temperate coniferous forest (3), temperate savanna (3), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1)

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Found in 13 samples

Austria: Thaya Valley

Canada: Dietrich-Jooss (1997), Misery Bay Provincial Nature Reserve

Czech Republic: Ceske Budejovice

Finland: Nuuksio National Park (small traps, prop-glyc)

Germany: Ossweil (penncress-corn crop rotation)

Hungary: North Hungarian Mountain Range (control plots)

Italy: Natural Special Reserve of Fondo Toce (riparian wood)

Russia: Lazarevo (original forest area)

United States: Lawrence County (MG Oak), Ashland Ranger District (burned), Ashland Ranger District (unburned), East Pond (shrub thicket)

See also Pterostichus, Pterostichus adstrictus, Pterostichus aethiops, Pterostichus caudicalis, Pterostichus comorus, Pterostichus coracinus, Pterostichus cupreus, Pterostichus dauricus, Pterostichus diligens, Pterostichus dilutipes, Pterostichus eximius, Pterostichus expedita, Pterostichus filium, Pterostichus fortis, Pterostichus gebleri, Pterostichus gibbicollis, Pterostichus haematopus, Pterostichus haesitatus, Pterostichus haptoroides, Pterostichus herculaneus, Pterostichus horvatovichi, Pterostichus interruptus, Pterostichus jankowskyi, Pterostichus kotzebuei, Pterostichus lama, Pterostichus mandzhuricus, Pterostichus microcephalus, Pterostichus minor, Pterostichus montanus, Pterostichus niger, Pterostichus nigrita, Pterostichus noguchii, Pterostichus novus, Pterostichus oblongopunctatus, Pterostichus orientalis, Pterostichus ovoideus, Pterostichus pedemontanus, Pterostichus perlutus, Pterostichus pohnerti, Pterostichus polygenus, Pterostichus punctatissimus, Pterostichus riparius, Pterostichus setosus, Pterostichus sp., Pterostichus sp. 2, Pterostichus strenuus, Pterostichus sulcitarsis, Pterostichus vernalis, Pterostichus versicolor, Pterostichus vladivostokensis, Pterostichus yoritomus, Pterostichus yunnanus