''Calosoma reitteri'' 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 found within Central Asia.
It was described by Roeschke in 1897.
[
It is named for entomologist ]Edmund Reitter
Edmund Reitter (22 October 1845 – 15 March 1920) was an Austrian entomologist, writer and a collector.
Biography
Edmund Reitter was best known as an expert on the beetles of the Palaearctic. He was an imperial advisor and editor of the ...
.
References
reitteri
Beetles described in 1897
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