Callistus lunatus

Callistus lunatus
Illustration of Callistus lunatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Licininae
Genus: Callistus
Bonelli, 1810
Species: C. lunatus
Binomial name
Callistus lunatus
(Fabricius, 1775)
Callistus lunatus male

Callistus lunatus is a species of ground beetle, and the only species of the monotypic genus Callistus.[1]

Distribution

It is native to the Palearctic (including Europe) and the Near East. In Europe, it is found in Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, European Turkey, mainland France, Germany, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, mainland Greece, Hungary, mainland Italy, Kaliningrad, Latvia (doubtful), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, mainland Portugal, Romania, Russia (except in the Northwest), Slovenia, mainland Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.[2]

References

  1. "Callistus Bonelli, 1810". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 13 Jul 2011.
  2. "Callistus lunatus at Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details". Retrieved 2013-03-18.

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