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

Species Carabus nemoralis - European Ground Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Works Cited
Carabus nemoralis European Ground Beetle - Carabus nemoralis Purpliish Ground Beetle - Carabus nemoralis Black Beetle - Carabus nemoralis Rove Beetle maybe ? - Carabus nemoralis Rove Beetle maybe ? - Carabus nemoralis Darkling Beetle - Carabus nemoralis Rouge Pk, May 6, 2020 - 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)
Other Common Names
Bronze Carabid
Explanation of Names
Carabus nemoralis O. F. Müller, 1764
Size
22-25 mm
Identification
Range
n. US & Canada, absent from Great Plains (BG data)
native to Europe, adventive in NA (in the east: NF-MN-ne.VA; in the west: BC-CA to AB-UT; isolated in the Saskatoon area, SK)(1)
Habitat
synanthropic: cultivated ground in city parks, gardens, adjacent woodlands
Season
mostly Apr-Oct (BG data)
Remarks
a member of the subgenus Archicarabus Seidlitz (10 spp. in Europe & the Middle East)(1)
Pliocene fossils of this species have been found 3.6-2.588 million years old.
Works Cited
1.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 1 April, 2023 - 5:58pm

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