Assemblage Characteristics and Habitat Specificity of Carabid Beetles in a Japanese Alpine-Subalpine Zone

Table 1

Total and measured sample numbers, mean body lengths (±SDs), size classes, and wing forms of carabid beetles in the alpine-subalpine zone on Mt. Hakusan in central Japan.

Species	Total samples (number)	Measured samples (number)	Mean body length ± SD (mm)	Size class	Wing form
Leptocarabus arboreus	102	80		L	ap
Leptocarabus procerulus	2	2		L	ap
Leistus subaeneus	9	8		S	ap
Nippononebria pusilla	16	14		S	br
Nebria sadona	3	3		M	ap
Nebria reflexa	3	2		M	br
Trechiama lewisi	3	2		S	ap
Trechus sp.	10	10		S	ap
Bembidion fujiyamai	15	14		S	ma
Bembidion sp.	459	369		S	br
Diplous depressus	1	1		M	ma
Apatrobus hasemiya	2	2		S	br
Platynus kitanoi	46	44		S	br
Platynus sp.	131	88		S	ma
Colpodes xestus	80	60		M	ap
Trigonognatha aurescens	10	10		M	ap
Pterostichus honshuensis	45	36		M	br
Pterostichus janoi	47	40		M	ap
Pristosia aeneola	1	1		M	ap
Synuchus takeuchii	7	7		S	ap
Trephionus kinoshitai	2	2		S	ap
Harpalus fuliginosus	2	2		S	ma
Trichotichnus sp.	1	1		M	br

S, <10 mm; M, 10–20 mm; L, >20 mm; ma, macropterous; br, brachypterous; ap, apterous.