Biology:Calosoma elegans

Short description: Species of beetle

Calosoma elegans
Illustration of monographs Georgiy Jacobson "Beetles Russia and Western Europe. Calosoma elegans is number 13
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Carabinae
Tribe:	Carabini
Genus:	Calosoma
Species:	C. elegans
Binomial name
Calosoma elegans (Kirsch, 1859)
Synonyms
Calosoma subtilestriatus Callisthenes elegans Kirsch, 1859 Callisthenes (Callisthenes) elegans Kirsch 1859 Callisthenes elegans saryarkensis Kabak 1992 Callisthenes elegans semenovi Callisthenes (Callisthenes) elegans species group Callisthenes (Callisthenes) elegans valentinae Obydov 1997

Calosoma elegans in a colour plate from Jacobson 1905–1915

Calosoma elegans is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and China.

Subspecies

These five subspecies belong to the species Calosoma elegans:

• Calosoma elegans elegans (Kirsch, 1859) (China and Kazakhstan)
• Calosoma elegans karagaicum (Lapouge, 1924) (Kyrgyzstan)
• Calosoma elegans manderstjernae (Ballion, 1871) (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan)
• Calosoma elegans semenovii (Motschulsky, 1860) (Kazakhstan)
• Calosoma elegans subtilestriatum Mandl, 1954 (China)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5023731 entry