| Brachinus bellicosus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Brachinus |
| Species: | B. bellicosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Brachinus bellicosus L. Dufour, 1820 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Brachinus bellicosus is a species of ground beetle in the Brachininae subfamily that can be found in France, [1] Portugal, and Spain. [2]
Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest. Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1819 and to the Académie Nationale de Médecine in 1820.
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