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| Species: | N. nudicollis |
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| Nebria nudicollis Peyerimhoff, 1911 | |
Nebria nudicollis is a species of ground beetle in the Nebriinae subfamily that is endemic to Algeria. [1] The species have 2 subspecies both of which are endemic to the same country. Their scientific names are Nebria nudicollis initialis and Nebria nudicollis nudicollis. [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.
Nebriinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following genera:
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, the world's largest Arab country, and the largest in Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes (counties). It has the highest human development index of all non-island African countries.
