Carabus scabrosus
Carabus scabrosus, common name Huge Violet Ground Beetle, is a species of beetles belonging to the Carabidae family.
Description
Carabus scabrosus can reach about 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in length and about 30 millimetres (1.2 in) in width in the broadest part of elytra. This is the largest of the carnivorous beetles known. The basic colour varies from bluish-black to violet or dark reddish-brown. The thorax is broad, truncated anteriorly and posteriorly, very slightly convex. The elytrtra are oval, convex and covered throughout with small tubercles . Also the pronotum has a rugose, granular surface.
Subspecies
- Carabus scabrosus akbesianus Breuning, 1975
- Carabus scabrosus amasicus Csiki, 1927
- Carabus scabrosus armenius Zaitzev, 1930
- Carabus scabrosus audouini Brullé, 1835
- Carabus scabrosus bulgharmaadensis Bodemeyer, 1915
- Carabus scabrosus bureschianus Breuning, 1928
- Carabus scabrosus callipygius Cavazzuti, 1986
- Carabus scabrosus caucasicus Adams, 1817
- Carabus scabrosus colchicus Motschulsky, 1844
- Carabus scabrosus culminicola (Cavazzuti, 1989)
- Carabus scabrosus dardanellicus Kraatz, 1886
- Carabus scabrosus elbursianus Mandl, 1958
- Carabus scabrosus estegeicus (Cavazzuti, 1989)
- Carabus scabrosus fallettianus (Cavazzuti, 1997)
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- Carabus scabrosus ispiratus Cavazzuti, 1986
- Carabus scabrosus mentor Blumenthal & Breuning, 1967
- Carabus scabrosus montisabanti Schweiger, 1962
- Carabus scabrosus munzurensis Cavazzuti & Lassalle, 1987
- Carabus scabrosus propinquus Csiki, 1927
- Carabus scabrosus scabrosus Olivier, 1795
- Carabus scabrosus schuberti Breuning, 1968
- Carabus scabrosus sommeri Mannerheim, 1844
- Carabus scabrosus sterilis Bodemeyer, 1915
- Carabus scabrosus tauricus Bonelli, 1810
- Carabus scabrosus transversalis Csiki, 1927
- Carabus scabrosus weidneri (Lassalle, 1990)
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