| Carabus finitimus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Carabus |
| Species: | C. finitimus
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| Binomial name | |
| Carabus finitimus Haldeman, 1852
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Carabus finitimus, Haldeman's worm and slug hunter, is a bluish-coloured1 species of beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, where it inhabits bottomland forests along rivers.
Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal.2
References
References
- Stansbury, Howard (1855), An expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah (Illustrated ed.), Lippincott, Grambo, p. 373
- A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)
Further reading
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C., 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.
- Erwin, Terry L. (2007). A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Volume I. Trachypachidae, Carabidae - Nebriiformes 1. Pensoft Publishers. pp. 323 + 22 plates. ISBN 978-954-642-2989. ISSN 1312-0174.
- White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Bousquet, Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. Bibcode:2012ZooK..245....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
- Riley, K; Browne, R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys (147): 601–621. Bibcode:2011ZooK..147..601R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.147.2102. PMC 3286241. PMID 22371677.