| Calosoma senegalense | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Calosoma |
| Species: | C. senegalense |
| Binomial name | |
| Calosoma senegalense Dejean, 1831 | |
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Calosoma senegalense is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae. [1] It was described by Dejean in 1831. This species is found in Cape Verde, Mauretania, Senegal/Gambia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Sudan, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Madagascar. [1]
Adults reach a length of 25-30 mm and have a dark bronze colour. Adults are diurnal and nocturnal.
They prey on other insects, and was introduced to Hawaii as a possible predator of Spodoptera mauritia , but acclimatization was unsuccessful. [2]
