''Cychropsis lucifer'' is a species of

ground beetle Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan 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 is one of the 10 most species-rich animal fami ...

in the subfamily of

Carabinae Carabinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following genera: * ''Aplothorax'' Waterhouse, 1841 * ''Calosoma'' Weber, 1801 *'' Calosoma oregonus'' Gidaspow, 1959 * ''Carabus'' Linnaeus, 1758 * ''Ceroglossus'' Soli ...

. It was described by Cavazzuti in 1996.

References

lucifer Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage ...

Beetles described in 1996 {{Cychropsis-stub