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Narrow Searcher - Calosoma externum
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Narrow Searcher - Calosoma externum
Durham County, North Carolina, USA
June 23, 2003
Size: 35 mm
Ventral view. Scale is in mm. Quoting from Key to Florida Ground Beetles key of genus Calosoma vs. Carabus: Metepimeron longer than wide.---> Calosoma

A definition of epimeron is "the part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage". I'm not sure about this character, but hope to understand it in the future.

Compare ventral view of Carabus vinctus:


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Contributed by Cotinis on 22 July, 2005 - 1:05pm

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