''Demetrida nasuta'' 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 ...

Lebiinae Lebiinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae. Genera The subfamily includes the following genera: * '' Abrodiella'' Bousquet, 2002 * '' Actenonyx'' White, 1846 * '' Aeolodermus'' Andrewes, 1929 * '' Afrodromius'' Basilewsky, 1958 ...

subfamily. It was described by

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on ...

in 1846 and is endemic to

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

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Beetles of New Zealand nasuta {{Lebiinae-stub