''Elaphrus parviceps'' 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 ...

in the subfamily

Elaphrinae Elaphrinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following genera: * '' Blethisa'' Bonelli, 1810 * ''Diacheila'' Motschulsky, 1844 * ''Elaphrus ''Elaphrus'' is a genus of ground beetle native to the Palearctic, the ...

. It was described by Van Dyke in 1925.

References

Elaphrinae Beetles described in 1925 {{Carabidae-stub