''Carabus smaragdinus'' is a species of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
belonging to the family
Carabidae
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.
Subspecies
* ''Carabus smaragdinus branickii'' Taczanowski, 1887
* ''Carabus smaragdinus dolichognathus'' Deuve, 1995
* ''Carabus smaragdinus euviridis'' (Ishikawa & Kim, 1983)
* ''Carabus smaragdinus furumiellu''s Deuve, 1994
* ''Carabus smaragdinus hoenggandoensis'' (Kwon & Lee, 1984)
* ''Carabus smaragdinus honanensis'' Hauser, 1921
* ''Carabus smaragdinus hongdoensi''s (Kwon & Lee, 1984)
* ''Carabus smaragdinus liaodongensis'' (Li, 1992)
* ''Carabus smaragdinus longipennis'' Chaudoir, 1863
* ''Carabus smaragdinus mandschuricus'' Semenov, 1898
* ''Carabus smaragdinus monilifer'' Tatum, 1847
* ''Carabus smaragdinus pinganensis'' Hauser, 1920
* ''Carabus smaragdinus shantungensis'' Born, 1910
* ''Carabus smaragdinus smaragdinus'' Fischer, 1823
* ''Carabus smaragdinus yanggangensis'' Deuve & Li, 2000
* ''Carabus smaragdinus zhongtiaoshanus'' Imura & Yamaya, 1994
Description
''Carabus smaragdinus'' can reach a length of about . The body is slender and the surface is metallic green or reddish coppery, depending on subspecies. The
elytra
An elytron (; ; : elytra, ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometime ...
are broad, robust and longitudinally covered with rows of small dotted points like bumps. Adults can be found from May through September. They mainly eat small creatures like earthworms.
Distribution
This species is native to the Far East. It can be found in
North
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Etymology
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and
South Korea
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, and in
China
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; from
Inner Mongolia
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to
Jilin
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and
Henan
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to the east and
Shanxi
Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...
to the west.
References
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