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Carabus sylvosus

Carabus sylvosus, the woodland ground beetle or silvan worm and slug hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America, where it inhabits wooded areas, including deciduous mixed and coniferous forests, as well as orchards.

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Carabus sylvosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Carabus
Species:
C. sylvosus
Binomial name
Carabus sylvosus
Say, 1823
Synonyms
  • Carabus lherminieri Dejean, 1826

Carabus sylvosus, the woodland ground beetle or silvan worm and slug hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America,1234 where it inhabits wooded areas, including deciduous mixed and coniferous forests, as well as orchards.

Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal. They prey on Lepidoptera pupae and scarabaeids.5

References

References

  1. "Carabus sylvosus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Carabus sylvosus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
  4. A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)
Further reading

Further reading

  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.