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Nebria purpurata
Nebria purpurata, the purple gazelle beetle, is a species of black coloured ground beetle from the Nebriinae subfamily that is endemic to the US states of Colorado and New Mexico, where it is found in mountainous, subalpine and alpine zones, along cold mountain streams.
Adults are brachypterous, nocturnal and carnivorous.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 622434.