''Aptinus'' is a genus 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 ...
native to
Europe
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and the
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
. It contains the following species:
* ''
Aptinus acutangulus''
Chaudoir, 1876
* ''
Aptinus alpinus''
Dejean, 1829
* ''
Aptinus bombarda''
(Illiger, 1800)
* ''
Aptinus cordicollis''
Chaudoir, 1843
* ''
Aptinus creticus''
Pic, 1903
* ''
Aptinus displosor''
L. Dufour, 1811
* ''
Aptinus hovorkai''
Hrdlicka, 2005
* ''
Aptinus lugubris''
Schaum, 1862
* ''
Aptinus merditanus''
Apfelbeck, 1918
* ''
Aptinus pyranaeus''
Dejean, 1824
References
External links
''Aptinus'' at Fauna Europaea
Brachininae
Taxa named by Franco Andrea Bonelli
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