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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