''Carabus alexandrae alexandrae'' is a subspecies of black coloured

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

from family Carabidae, that is endemic to

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

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 ...

. The females of the subspecies are long.

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alexandrae alexandrae Beetles described in 1887 Beetles of Asia Endemic fauna of Gansu Taxa named by Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky {{carabus-stub