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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Carabini » Caterpillar Hunter Beetles (Calosoma) » Subgenus Castrida (Calosoma Subgenus Castrida) » Black Caterpillar Hunter Beetle (Calosoma sayi)
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Black Caterpillar Hunter - Calosoma sayi
Copyright © 2005 Cotinis

Black Caterpillar Hunter - Calosoma sayi
Hwy 55 and Sedwick, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
July 20, 2005
Size: 29 mm
Detail of head, antennae. Quoting from Key to Florida Ground Beetles key of genus Calosoma vs. Carabus: Antennal segments 2 and 3 carinate (ridged). Mandibles with transverse rugosities, at least basally. --->Calosoma

I believe you can see both of these features in this photo. Compare Carabus vinctus:


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Contributed by Cotinis on 22 July, 2005 - 12:25pm

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