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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Carabini » Carabus » subgenus Tanaocarabus (Carabus subgenus Tanaocarabus) » Carabus taedatus
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I though this was C. frigidum, but the pronotum looks different. - Carabus taedatus
Copyright © 2021 Mark S. Romero

I though this was C. frigidum, but the pronotum looks different. - Carabus taedatus
Mt. Taylor, Cibola County, New Mexico, USA
July 13, 2021
Size: ~22mm
Below La Mosca peak under a tree branch. TIA for any further placement and ID.
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Contributed by Mark S. Romero on 8 August, 2021 - 4:32pm
Last updated 8 August, 2021 - 10:19pm

Moved
Moved from Carabinae.
… v belov, 8 August, 2021 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

looks like the bloody Carabus nemoralis to me...
made its way that far south?
… v belov, 8 August, 2021 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Did some checking
in BG, possibly Carabus taedatus.
… Mark S. Romero, 8 August, 2021 - 9:28pm login or register to post comments

 
great -- thanks!
… v belov, 8 August, 2021 - 10:20pm login or register to post comments

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