Species Carabus nemoralis - European Ground Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited

colorful ground beetle - Carabus nemoralis - female

Purpliish Ground Beetle - Carabus nemoralis

Family Carabidae - Ground Beetles - Carabus nemoralis

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

Species nemoralis (European Ground Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Carabus nemoralis O.F.Müller 1764

Size

21‒26 mm(1)

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA (in the east: NF‒MN‒ne.VA; in the west: BC‒CA to SK‒*CO)(2)(*BG data)

Habitat

synanthropic: city parks, gardens, adjacent woodlands

Remarks

a member of the subgenus Archicarabus Seidlitz (10 spp., Europe & Middle East)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.

2.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 March, 2005 - 10:36pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Lynette Elliott, Mike Quinn, v belov, Fyn Kynd, Arturo Santos
Last updated 9 April, 2024 - 12:38pm

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