''Calosoma blaptoides'' 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 subfamily of
Carabinae.
It was described by
Jules Putzeys
Jules Antoine Adolphe Henri Putzeys (1 May 1809 - 2 January 1882) was a Belgian magistrate and an entomologist who took a special interest in the beetles belonging to the family Carabidae.
Putzeys was born in Liège and obtained a doctoral degree ...
in 1845.
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References
Blaptoides
Beetles described in 1845
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