Carabus scabrosus

Carabus scabrosus
	Carabus scabrosus colchicus, at National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 beetle of the family Carabidae.

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. Black varieties of the beetle typically also show a high absorption in the near-infrared part of the spectrum.^[1]

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 bakurianicola Rataj, 2018
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 demiddelaerae Rataj, 2018
Carabus scabrosus elbursianus Mandl, 1958
Carabus scabrosus estegeicus (Cavazzuti, 1989)
Carabus scabrosus fallettianus (Cavazzuti, 1997)
Carabus scabrosus farnazae Deuve, 2006
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 weidneri (Lassalle, 1990)

References

^ Mielewczik, Michael; Liebisch, Frank; Walter, Achim; Greven, Hartmut (2012). "Near-Infrared (NIR)-Reflectance in Insects – Phenetic Studies of 181 Species" (PDF). Entomologie heute. 23: 183–215.

Biolib
Fauna europaea
The Penny Encyclopedia, vol. 6
Zipcodezoo
Volovnik, S. V., Suchkov S. I. The huge violet ground beettle (Carabus (Procerus) scabrosus crimeanus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) was found outside of the Crimea // Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 2018, 8 (3): 52–56.

External links

Beetles of Russia
Galerie-insecte
Data related to Carabus scabrosus at Wikispecies
Media related to Carabus scabrosus at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] Mielewczik, Michael; Liebisch, Frank; Walter, Achim; Greven, Hartmut (2012). "Near-Infrared (NIR)-Reflectance in Insects – Phenetic Studies of 181 Species" (PDF). Entomologie heute. 23: 183–215.

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