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Brachinus psophia

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Brachinus psophia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Brachinus
Species:
B. psophia
Binomial name
Brachinus psophia

Brachinus psophia is a species of ground beetle from the subfamily Brachininae.[1] It is widely distributed in the southern half of Europe[1] (including Bulgaria,[2] Greece, Italy,[3][4] Romania,[5] Albania, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, Ukraine, all states of former Yugoslavia (except for North Macedonia), and in Western Europe). It can also be found on such European islands as Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, and on the island of Cyprus in Asia.[1] Besides European countries it can be found in Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Central Asian republics.[6] It is also known from Turkey,[7] The species was also found and described in Georgia in 2004.[8] and

Conservation

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The species is considered "endangered" in the Czech Republic.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Brachinus (Brachinus) psophia Audinet-Serville, 1821". Fauna Europaea. 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2024. Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Kryzhanovskij O.L.; Belousov I.A.; Kabak I.I.; Kataev B.M.; Makarov K.V.; Shilenkov V.G. (1995). A Checklist of the ground-beetles of Russia and adjacent Lands (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Pentsoft. p. 271.
  4. ^ Lobl I.; Smetana A. (2003). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. p. 819. ISBN 9788788757736.
  5. ^ "Romanian distribution". Carabidae of Romania. July 8, 2012. Archived from the original on October 24, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  6. ^ "Brachinus psophia Audinet-Serville, 1821". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  7. ^ http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/LBB_0039_2_0979-0982.pdf Contribution to the Knowledge of Carabidae Fauna of Turkey.Part 5:Brachinini (Coleoptera:Carabidae, Brachininae)
  8. ^ N. Reck; G. Chaladze (2004). Check-list of the ground beetles of Georgia. Vol. 5. Tbilisi: Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology of Georgia. pp. 127–157.
  9. ^ Hejda, Radek; Farkač J. & Karel Chobot, eds. (2017). "Červený seznam ohrožených druhů České republiky. Bezobratlí" [Red List of Threatened Species of the Czech Republic. Invertebrates]. Prague: Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic. p. 298.
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