Cychrus pangi

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Cychrus pangi is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae.[1] It was described by Deuve & Tian in 2004.[1]

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Cychrus pangi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Cychrus
Species:
C. pangi
Binomial name
Cychrus pangi
Deuve & Tian, 2004
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Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from Cychreus, son of Poseidon and Salamis, or from Cychros, a city in Thrace near a lake whose water was unhealthy. Duméril (1823: 167) stated that Cychros was the name of a bird (probably in Pliny the Elder), but this hasn't been proven. [2]

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