Brachinus elegans

Brachinus elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Brachinus
Species: B. elegans
Binomial name
Brachinus elegans
Chaudoir, 1842
Synonyms
  • Brachinus advena Schauberger, 1921
  • Brachinus ganglbaueri Apfelbeck, 1904
  • Brachinus velutinus Motschulsky, 1864

Brachinus elegans is a species of ground beetle in the Brachininae subfamily that can be found in Bulgaria,[1] Albania, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, all states of former Yugoslavia (except for Macedonia), in Western Europe, and on the islands such as Sardinia and Sicily.[2] Besides European countries it can be found in Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan and Turkey. It can also be found in North African country of Morocco.[3] The species were also found in Georgia in 2004.[4]

References

  1. Vassil B. Guéorguiev, Borislav V. Guéorguiev (1995). Catalogue of the ground beetles of Bulgaria (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Sofia - Moscow: Pensoft. p. 78. ISBN 954-642-003-4.
  2. "Brachinus (Brachinus) elegans Chaudoir, 1842". Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
  3. "Brachinus (Brachinus) elegans Chaudoir, 1842". Carabidae of the World. September 20, 2011. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  4. N. Reck, G. Chaladze (2004). Check-list of the ground beetles of Georgia 5. Tbilisi: Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology of Georgia. pp. 127–157.


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