Brachinus psophia explained

Brachinus psophia is a species of ground beetle from the Brachininae subfamily that can be found in Bulgaria,[1] Greece, Italy,[2] [3] 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.[4] Besides European countries it can be found in Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Central Asian republics.[5] It is also known from Turkey,[6] The species were also found and described in Georgia in 2004,[7] and Romania.[8]

Threat

The species are under threat in the Czech Republic.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Catalogue of the ground beetles of Bulgaria (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Vassil B. Guéorguiev . Borislav V. Guéorguiev . 1995. Pensoft. Sofia - Moscow. 78. 954-642-003-4.
  2. Book: 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. 271.
  3. Book: Lobl I. . Smetana A. . 2003. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. 819.
  4. Web site: Brachinus (Brachinus) psophia Audinet-Serville, 1821. https://web.archive.org/web/20131020182247/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=387502. dead. October 20, 2013. Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. October 20, 2013.
  5. Web site: Brachinus psophia Audinet-Serville, 1821 . Catalogue of Life . 2023-04-08 .
  6. 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)
  7. Book: N. Reck . G. Chaladze . Check-list of the ground beetles of Georgia . Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology of Georgia. 5. 12. 127–157. Tbilisi. 2004.
  8. Web site: Romanian distribution. Carabidae of Romania. July 8, 2012. December 28, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131024161331/http://carabidaeromania.blogspot.com/2012/07/brachinus-psophia.html. October 24, 2013.
  9. Web site: Farkač J., Král D. . Škorpík M. . amp. 2005. List of threatened species in the Czech Republic. Invertebrates, Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR. Prague. 760.

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