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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Carabini » Calosoma
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Ground Beetle - Calosoma
Copyright © 2003 Bryan E. Reynolds

Ground Beetle - Calosoma
J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota, USA
June 14, 2003
Any ID guesses?
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Contributed by Bryan E. Reynolds on 27 March, 2005 - 6:51pm
Last updated 30 March, 2007 - 4:53am

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 30 March, 2007 - 4:53am login or register to post comments

Calosoma calidum?
Those big yellow spots look like the ones on C. calidum (22 mm), a species that occurs across Canada and presumably the US.
… Robin McLeod, 27 March, 2005 - 10:51pm login or register to post comments

Carabus species.
Looks very similar to the carabas picture in the Peterson Field Guide.
… Lynette Schimming, 27 March, 2005 - 7:28pm login or register to post comments

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