''Carabus blaptoides oxuroides'' is a subspecies of
ground beetle in the family
Carabidae that is endemic to
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. The species are gray coloured with purple
pronotum.
References
blaptoides oxuroides
Beetles described in 1862
Endemic insects of Japan
Taxa named by Hermann Rudolph Schaum
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