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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 Carabosoma (Calosoma Subgenus Carabosoma) » Calosoma peregrinator
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Black Ground Beetle - Calosoma peregrinator
Copyright © 2008 Lynette Elliott

Black Ground Beetle - Calosoma peregrinator
Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County, California, USA
April 1, 2008
Calosoma?

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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 10 April, 2008 - 9:55pm
Last updated 12 September, 2023 - 7:29pm

Moved
Moved from Caterpillar Hunter Beetles.
… v belov, 11 September, 2023 - 9:58am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 26 August, 2008 - 2:43pm login or register to post comments

I think so.
It looks similar to this one from New Mexico. What size was yours?
… Jim McClarin, 11 April, 2008 - 5:31am login or register to post comments

 
Not 29 mm
like yours. I would estimate they were 20-25mm.
… Lynette Elliott, 11 April, 2008 - 8:27am login or register to post comments

 
We need a key to the southwestern Calosoma
:-)
… Jim McClarin, 11 April, 2008 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Key and illustrations for all Calosoma spp. of southwest
(and beyond) appear in Gidaspow (1959) - North American Caterpillar Hunters of the Genera Calosoma and Callisthenes - Bulletin American Museum Natural History. Additional natural history for each species can be found in these two Pensoft publications: Erwin (2007) - Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Volume 1) or Larochelle & Lariviere (2003)- Natural History of the Ground Beetles of America North of Mexico. I'm not aware of a published key restricted to carabids (including Calosoma) of just the southwest.
… Peter W. Messer, 11 April, 2008 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

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