''Allocota bicolor'' is a species of
ground beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it i ...
in the
Lebiinae
Lebiinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae.
Genera
The subfamily includes the following genera:
* '' Abrodiella'' Bousquet, 2002
* '' Actenonyx'' White, 1846
* '' Aeolodermus'' Andrewes, 1929
* '' Afrodromius'' Basilewsky, 1958
...
subfamily that can be found in such
Asia
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n countries as
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
,
Laos
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,
Thailand
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and
Viet Nam
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.
Description
The species is reddish-blue coloured and is in length. Its head and pronotum is of orange red colour with yellowish brown
mouthparts. Its palpomeres is of dark brown colour.
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References
Beetles described in 2013
Beetles of Asia
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