''Elaphrus punctatus'' 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 ...
in the subfamily
Elaphrinae
Elaphrinae is a subfamily of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are at least 4 genera and more than 50 described species in Elaphrinae.
Genera
These four genera belong to the subfamily Elaphrinae:
* ''Blethisa'' Bonelli, 1810
* ''Dia ...
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It was described by
Victor Motschulsky
Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky, sometimes Victor von Motschulsky ( Russian: Виктор Иванович Мочульский; 11 April 1810, St. Petersburg – 5 June 1871, Simferopol) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in beetles.
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in 1844.
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References
Elaphrinae
Beetles described in 1844
Taxa named by Victor Motschulsky
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