Zabrus spinipes

Species of beetle

Zabrus spinipes
Zabrus (Pelor) spinipes. Museum specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Zabrus
Subgenus: Zabrus (Pelor)
Species:
Z. spinipes
Binomial name
Zabrus spinipes
(Fabricius, 1798)
Synonyms
  • Pelor spinipes (Fabricius, 1798)[1]
  • Zabrus blapoides (Creutzer, 1799)[1]
  • Blaps spinipes Fabricius, 1798[2]
  • Carabus blaptoides Creutzer, 1799[2]

Zabrus (Pelor) spinipes is a species of ground beetle belonging to the family Carabidae, genus Zabrus, subgenus Pelor.[1][2][3][4]

Subspecies

There are four subspecies of Z. spinipes:[1][5]

  • Zabrus spinipes insignis J. Müller, 1931
  • Zabrus spinipes rugosus (Ménétries, 1832)
  • Zabrus spinipes spinipes (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Zabrus spinipes stevenii (Fischer von Waldheim, 1817)

Description

Zabrus (Pelor) spinipes can reach a length of 17–21 millimetres (0.67–0.83 in). The head is large, almost oval. Elitrae are elongated, with light longitudinal striae. Body color is bright black.[6]

Distribution

This species can be found in Albania Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece Hungary, Moldova, Poland, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Ukraine, southern part of Russia (including Near East) and all states of former Yugoslavia (except for Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina).[2]

  • Zabrus spinipes
    Zabrus spinipes
  • Z. spinipes from Coleoptera Illustrata
    Z. spinipes from Coleoptera Illustrata
  • Z. spinipes from Fauna Germanica. ( 9a: head, 9b: labrum, 9c: mandible, 9d: maxilla)
    Z. spinipes from Fauna Germanica. ( 9a: head, 9b: labrum, 9c: mandible, 9d: maxilla)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Biolib
  2. ^ a b c d Zabrus (Pelor) spinipes (Fabricius, 1798) in Fauna europaea
  3. ^ M. Le Compte Dejean Iconographie et Histoire Naturelle des Coleopteres d’Europe (1852)
  4. ^ O. L. Kryžanovskij – 1995 A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands
  5. ^ Löbl, Ivan; Löbl, Daniel (2017). Archostemata-Myxophaga-Adephaga. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1 (Revised and Updated ed.). ISBN 9789004330290.
  6. ^ Pierre-François Dejean Specimens général des coléoptères de la collection du comte Dejean
  • Beetles and Coleopterologists
Taxon identifiers
Zabrus spinipes
Blaps spinipes


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