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Ophonus scharifi

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Ophonus scharifi is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Source checklists list it for 2 countries: Armenia and Iraq.

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Quick facts about Ophonus scharifi

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
2 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does Ophonus scharifi live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Ophonus scharifi is listed for 2 countries.

IraqArmenia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Armenia
  2. Iraq

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Ophonus scharifi endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Ophonus scharifi classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyCarabidae
  6. genusOphonus
  7. SpeciesOphonus scharifi (Morvan, 1977)

Synonyms Metophonus abalisensis, Metophonus scharifi, Ophonus abalisensis

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Ophonus scharifi

Other species in the same genus Ophonus.

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Common questions

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Where does Ophonus scharifi live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Ophonus scharifi for 2 countries: Armenia and Iraq. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Ophonus scharifi?

Ophonus scharifi (Ophonus scharifi) belongs to the family Carabidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ophonus scharifi (Ophonus scharifi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ophonus-scharifi

MLA

“Ophonus scharifi (Ophonus scharifi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ophonus-scharifi.

BibTeX
@misc{ophonus_scharifi_2026,
  title = {Ophonus scharifi (Ophonus scharifi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ophonus-scharifi},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}