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{{Publication to wiki notice
 | author = Hildebrandt, Drew A. AND Maddison, David R.
 | author_abbreviated = Hildebrandt D AND Maddison D
 | year = 2011
 | title = A new species of ''Bembidion'' Latrielle 1802 from the Ozarks, with a review of the North American species of subgenus ''Trichoplataphus'' Netolitzky 1914 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiini)
 | journal = ZooKeys
 | volume = 147
 | pages = 261--275
 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.147.1872
 | citationurl = http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/1872/citation/ 
 | url = http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/1872/abstract
 | publisher = Pensoft Publishers
 | publisherurl = http://www.pensoft.net/
}}					

{{Treatment start
 | Ordo = Coleoptera
 | Familia = Carabidae
 | Genus = Bembidion
 | Specific name = fugax
 | Infraspecific name = 
 | Taxon rank = 	
 | Taxon authority = (LeConte, 1848)
 | Taxon status = 
 | Wikispecies page name = Bembidion_fugax
 | Pensoft Profile = Bembidion_fugax
}}

==Junior synonyms==
''{{Taxon name|Octhedromus planipennis}}'' LeConte, 1850; ''{{Taxon name|Bembidion champlaini}}'' Casey, 1918.

==Diagnosis==
Most specimens can be separated from ''{{Taxon name|Bembidion grandiceps}}'' using the characters listed for that species. Also, specimens of ''{{Taxon name|Bembidion fugax}}'' have a more narrow head and pronotum and the elytral apex slopes slightly.<br />
This species can be separated from ''{{Taxon name|Bembidion planum}}'' by the 6th elytral stria being as, or nearly as, impressed behind the shoulder as the 5th, and the frontal furrows are prolonged and markedly diverging behind the posterior supra-orbital puncture. In addition, ''{{Taxon name|Bembidion fugax}}'' has deeper furrows with steeper sides, more polished especially at the bottom, and more sharply etched at the bottom, with the raised area between the eye and the frontal furrow being more bulbous, and shinier; ''{{Taxon name|Bembidion planum}}'' has broad, shallow furrows, sides gently sloped, more microsculpture on the slopes and especially bottoms, not sharply etched at the bottom, and with the raised area between the eye and the frontal furrow being flatter and not as shiny. Specimens tend to be darker and slightly larger than those of ''{{Taxon name|Bembidion planum}}'' and in most specimens the pronotal microsculpture is weakly impressed and obsolete on the disk.

==Geographic distribution==
Recorded from '''USA''': DC, IL, IN, MA, MD, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, VT (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993<ref name="B1">{{aut|Bousquet Y}}, {{aut|Larochelle A}} (1993) Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America north of Mexico. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 167: 1-397. [http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/entm125167fv doi: 10.4039/entm125167fv]</ref > and R. Davidson, pers. comm.).					

==Taxon Treatment==
*{{aut|Hildebrandt, D}}; {{aut|Maddison, D}}; 2011: A new species of ''Bembidion'' Latrielle 1802 from the Ozarks, with a review of the North American species of subgenus ''Trichoplataphus'' Netolitzky 1914 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiini) [http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/ ''ZooKeys'',] '''147''': 261-275. {{doi|10.3897/zookeys.147.1872}}

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