| Aspidoglossa latiuscula | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Aspidoglossa |
| Species: | A. latiuscula |
| Binomial name | |
| Aspidoglossa latiuscula Putzeys, 1866 | |
Aspidoglossa latiuscula is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. [1] It was described by Putzeys in 1866. [1]
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. It is one of the ten most speciose animal families, as of 2015.
Scaritinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following genera:
A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper. Its purpose is to give a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species which have been described previously or are related. The species description often contains photographs or other illustrations of the type material and states in which museums it has been deposited. The publication in which the species is described gives the new species a formal scientific name. Some 1.9 million species have been identified and described, out of some 8.7 million that may actually exist. Millions more have become extinct.
