Critically Endangered
Pseudanchomenus aptinoides
Pseudanchomenus aptinoides
Pseudanchomenus aptinoides is a beetle in the family Carabidae (order Coleoptera), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Portugal.
The beetle
The scientific authority on the species is Tarnier, having been described in 1860.
Beetles are the largest insect order. The hard forewings (elytra) cover the flight wings; larvae and adults often eat different things.
An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.
Range and habitat
Pseudanchomenus aptinoides is recorded from Portugal.
GBIF currently lists 220 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Life history
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Pseudanchomenus aptinoides is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Portuguese Wikipedia article on Pseudanchomenus aptinoides, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q14182948 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
