| Abax parallelepipedus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Abax |
| Subgenus: | Abax |
| Species: | A. parallelepipedus |
| Binomial name | |
| Abax parallelepipedus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) | |
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Abax parallelepipedus is a species of ground beetle native to Europe, where it is found in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, mainland France, Germany, [1] Great Britain, Hungary, mainland Italy, Kaliningrad, Latvia (doubtful), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, mainland Norway, Poland, central and southern Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, mainland Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. The species is also an introduced species in North America, where it was first detected in 1965. [2] American records are from Atlantic Canada and Jamaica. [3]
