''Poecilus baeticus'' is a species of ground beetle in the family
Carabidae
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 ...
. It is found in Spain and
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
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Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species ''Poecilus baeticus'':
* ''Poecilus baeticus baeticus'' Rambur, 1838 (Spain)
* ''Poecilus baeticus gharbensis'' (Alluaud, 1927) (Morocco)
References
Beetles described in 1837
Endemic fauna of Spain
Beetles of Europe
Taxa named by Jules Pierre Rambur
Pterostichinae
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