''Carabus vinctus'', the stitched ground beetle or bound worm and slug hunter, is a species of
ground beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), 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 ...
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 North America,
[ where it flood plain forests, low deciduous forests and swamp-forests.
Adults are ]brachypterous
Brachyptery is an anatomical condition in which an animal has very reduced wings. Such animals or their wings may be described as "brachypterous". Another descriptor for very small wings is microptery.
Brachypterous wings generally are not functi ...
and nocturnal. They are scavengers on dead fish and meat.A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)
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Beetles described in 1801
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