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Carabus vinctus

Carabus vinctus, the stitched ground beetle or bound worm and slug hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America, where it flood plain forests, low deciduous forests and swamp-forests.

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Carabus vinctus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Carabus
Species:
C. vinctus
Binomial name
Carabus vinctus
(Weber, 1801)
Synonyms
  • Tachypus vinctus Weber, 1801
  • Carabus georgiae Csiki, 1927
  • Carabus carinatus Dejean, 1826
  • Carabus interruptus Say, 1823
  • Carabus ligatus Germar, 1823

Carabus vinctus, the stitched ground beetle or bound worm and slug hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America,1234 where it flood plain forests, low deciduous forests and swamp-forests.

Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal. They are scavengers on dead fish and meat.5

References

References

  1. "Carabus vinctus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Carabus vinctus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  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.
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