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Calosoma inquisitor

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Calosoma inquisitor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Caraboidea
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Carabinae
Tribe: Carabini
Genus: Calosoma
Species:
C. inquisitor
Binomial name
Calosoma inquisitor
Synonyms
  • Carabus inquisitor Linnaeus, 1758

Calosoma inquisitor (the lesser searcher beetle or caterpillar-hunter)[1] is a species of ground beetle. The species is found in northern Africa, Europe (northward to southern Scandinavia) and East to Asia Minor, Iran and the Caucasus, with isolated populations in eastern Siberia and Japan.

The imagines are predatory on various insects and their larvae, especially, feed on Lepidoptera larvae. They can fly well and are found not only on the ground, but also in bushes and on trees. In case of danger the beetle can fall and then threaten by lifting up the front body and spreading the mandibles. The females lay about 50 eggs. The hatching larvae are also predatory and develop very quickly. They're in the ground. The beetles emerge in June, but still linger in a diapause until next spring in the ground.

References

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  1. ^ "Calosoma inquisitor : Caterpillar-hunter | NBN Atlas".

Calosoma inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)

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