Miscodera

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

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| genus = Miscodera

| parent_authority = Eschscholtz, 1830

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Miscodera arctica is a species of beetles in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Miscodera.{{Cite web| title=Miscodera Eschscholtz, 1830 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8KX7N | website=Catalogue of Life | access-date=2023-04-08 }} It is circumpolar in distribution, predominantly northern,Lindroth, Carl H., 1961: The Ground-Beetles (Carabidae, excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska, Part 2. Opuscula Entomologica, Supplementum 20, p. 171 with outliers in New Hampshire and Maine Dearborn, R. G., R. E. Nelson, C. Donahue, R. T. Bell, and R. P. Webster, 2014: The Ground-Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Fauna of Maine, U.S.A. Coleopterists Bulletin, vol. 68, no. 3, p. 441-599. in the continental U.S.

Its relationships have been long disputed. Here it is placed in subfamily Broscinae. While it certainly belongs to the more advanced ground beetles, it was alternatively placed in the subfamily Trechinae.