Carabus scabrosus

Carabus scabrosus
Carabus scabrosus colchicus, at National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Carabus
Species:	C. scabrosus
Binomial name
Carabus scabrosus Olivier, 1795
Synonyms
Procerus scabrosus Olivier, 1795

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 among the largest of the known Carabus beetles. 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)

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)

References

• Biolib
• Fauna europaea
• The Penny Encyclopedia, vol. 6
• Zipcodezoo

External links

• Beetles of Russia
• Galerie-insecte