Passalidius

Burrowing ground beetle
Burrowing in Kalahari sand, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Passalidius Chaudoir, 1863
Species:	P. fortipes
Binomial name
Passalidius fortipes (Boheman, 1860)

Passalidius fortipes is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Passalidius.

In the Nossob riverbed, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa