Harpalus cephalotes is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Harpalinae.[1] It was described by Fairmaire & Laboulbene in 1854.[1] It thrives in both high-temperature areas and highly saline soils.[2] It is the only member of the cephalotes subgenus. It has two subspecies: H. c. cephalotes, found across south-central Europe east to Kazakhstan and the Turkey/Transcaucasus region; and H. c. somcheticus, found in dry parts of eastern Anatolia, Armenia, and Israel.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Harpalinae |
| Tribe: | Harpalini |
| Genus: | Harpalus |
| Species: | H. cephalotes
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| Binomial name | |
| Harpalus cephalotes Fairmaire & Laboulbene, 1854
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References
edit- ^ a b "Harpalus cephalotes Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1854". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ Béla, Tallósi; Radosav, Sekulic (January 1989). "The Carabidae (Coleoptera) Fauna on the Sodic Soils of the Tisa Valley (Yugoslavia)" (PDF). Tiscia (Szeged). 23.
- ^ Kataev, B.M. (2006). "To the knowledge of the genus Harpalus Latreille, 1802 of the Eastern Palaearctic (Coleoptera: Carabidae)". Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society. 77.