Harpalus cephalotes explained

Harpalus cephalotes is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Harpalinae.[1] It was described by Fairmaire & Laboulbene in 1854.[1] It thrives in both high-temperature areas and highly saline soils.[2] It is the only member of the cephalotes subgenus. It has two subspecies: H. c. cephalotes, found across south-central Europe east to Kazakhstan and the Turkey/Transcaucasus region; and H. c. somcheticus, found in dry parts of eastern Anatolia, Armenia, and Israel.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Harpalus cephalotes Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1854 . Catalogue of Life . 2023-04-08 .
  2. Béla . Tallósi . Radosav . Sekulic . January 1989 . The Carabidae (Coleoptera) Fauna on the Sodic Soils of the Tisa Valley (Yugoslavia) . Tiscia (Szeged) . 23.
  3. Kataev . B.M. . 2006 . To the knowledge of the genus Harpalus Latreille, 1802 of the Eastern Palaearctic (Coleoptera: Carabidae) . Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society . 77.

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