''Carabus maurus'' is a species of
beetle from the family
Carabidae, found in
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 ...
, and countries like
Armenia,
Georgia,
Iran,
Iraq,
Israel,
Lebanon,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
,
Turkey,
Turkmenistan, and on
Cyprus. The species are either black or steal coloured.
Subspecies include:
* ''
Carabus maurus maurus''
* ''
Carabus maurus osculatii''
References
maurus
Beetles described in 1817
Beetles of Asia
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