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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Carabini » Carabus

Genus Carabus

Classification · Pronunciation · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited

C. vietinghoffii - odd color morph? - Carabus vietinghoffii

irridescent beetle - Carabus vietinghoffii

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Carabinae

Tribe Carabini

Genus Carabus

Pronunciation

kăr´å`bŭs

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

our fauna reviewed in (1)

Explanation of Names

Carabus Linnaeus 1758

Greek κα'ραβος 'horned beetle, crawfish/lobster'(2)

Numbers

14 spp. (of which 3 adventive) in 9 subgenera in our area, >700 total in ~90 subgenera(3)

Identification

key to species in (1)

Range

Holarctic (most diverse in montane Eurasia)(3), incl. much of NA, esp. the northern half: 12 spp. in Canada(4), 8 in New England(5), 6 in WI(6), 5 in the Carolinas (cancellatus, goryi, serratus, sylvosus, vinctus)(7)(8), 2 in FL(9), 2-3 in CA(10)

Food

Predatory

Life Cycle

Some species reported to overwinter as adults. Some reported to perform a courtship ritual, unusual in beetles.

Works Cited

1.	A review of the North American species of the genus Carabus Linnaeus Van Dyke E.C. 1944. Entomologica Americana (n.ser.) 24: 87-137.

2.	The Century Dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language

3.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

4.	The Ground Beetles of Canada

5.	UNH Insect and Arachnid Collections

6.	An annotated checklist of Wisconsin ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Peter W. Messer. 2009. The Great Lakes Entomologist 42(1-2): 30-61.

7.	Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina Janet Ciegler. 2000. Clemson University.

8.	Insects of North Carolina C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

9.	A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida

10.	California Beetle Project

Contributed by Cotinis on 24 March, 2004 - 6:47pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 22 February, 2021 - 2:44pm

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