The Fauna of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Paddy Fields, Four Province, Korea

A total of 29 species belonging to 17 genera of 10 subfamilies were identified from 277 collected ground beetles in paddy fields. [Species richness was high in Harpalinae (9 species, 31.0%), Pterostichinae (8 species, 27.6%), Callistinae (4 species, 13.8%), Nebriinae (2 species, 6.9%), and others subfamilies (1 species, 3.4%). The subfamily Harpalinae had the most number of individuals (24.5%), followed by 63 Callistinae (22.7%), 59 Zabrinae (21.3%), and 48 Brachininae (17.3%), 19 Pterostichinae (6.9%), 8 Licininae (2.9%), Nebriinae (2.5%), 3 Patrobinae (1.1%), and 1 other subfamily (0.4%), respectively. The dominant species was Amara congrua (59 individuals, 21.3%) and the subdominant species was Chlaenius pallipes (49 individuals, 17.7%)]. Between Site 4 (Chuncheon-city, Gangwon-do) and Site 5 (Gangneung-city, Chuncheon-city, Gangwon-do) and between Site 1 (Yuseong-gu, Daejeon metropolitan-city) and Site 2 (Danyang-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do) had the highest similarity in the result of cluster analysis using the surveyed ground beetles.