''Dyschirius laeviusculus'' 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
Scaritinae
Scaritinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following genera:
* '' Acanthoscelis'' Dejean, 1825
* '' Afroclivina'' Kult, 1959
* '' Afrosyleter'' Basilewsky, 1959
* '' Akephorus'' LeConte, 1851
* '' Alpiodytes'' Je ...
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It was
described by
Jules Putzeys
Jules Antoine Adolphe Henri Putzeys (1 May 1809 - 2 January 1882) was a Belgian magistrate and an entomologist who took a special interest in the beetles belonging to the family Carabidae.
Putzeys was born in Liège and obtained a doctoral degree ...
in 1846.
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References
laeviusculus
Beetles described in 1846
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