Carabus Vietinghoffii
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''Carabus vietinghoffii'', Vietinghoff's worm and slug hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family
Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal ...
. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ''ZooKeys 245'': 1-1722.


Subspecies

*''Carabus vietinghoffii bowringii'' Chaudoir, 1863 (China, North Korea, Russia) *''Carabus vietinghoffii dajianensis'' Deuve & Li, 2011 (China) *''Carabus vietinghoffii fulgidiformis'' Obydov, 2008 (China) *''Carabus vietinghoffii fulgidus'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 (China, Russia) *''Carabus vietinghoffii vietinghoffii'' (USA, Canada, Russia, Alaska)


References

* Riley K, Browne R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ''. ZooKeys'' 147: 601–621.


Further reading

* Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (2000). ''American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. * Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.


External links


NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Carabus vietinghoffii''
vietinghoffii Beetles described in 1912 {{Carabus-stub