title: Poecilus
text: # Poecilus
  
  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 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 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)
  