Carabus finitimus

Carabus finitimus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Carabus
Species:	C. finitimus
Binomial name
Carabus finitimus Haldeman, 1852
Synonyms
Carabus caseyiAngell, 1914 Carabus leconteiCasey, 1913

Carabus finitimus, Haldeman's worm and slug hunter, is a bluish-coloured ^[1] species of beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, where it inhabits bottomland forests along rivers.

Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal. ^[2]

References

1. Stansbury, Howard (1855), An expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah (Illustrated ed.), Lippincott, Grambo, p.  373
2. A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C., eds. (2000). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Erwin, Terry L. (2007). A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Volume I. Trachypachidae, Carabidae - Nebriiformes 1. Pensoft Publishers. pp. 323 + 22 plates. ISBN   978-954-642-2989. ISSN   1312-0174.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Bousquet, Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. Bibcode:2012ZooK..245....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 . PMC   3577090 . PMID   23431087.
• Riley, K; Browne, R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys (147): 601–621. Bibcode:2011ZooK..147..601R. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.147.2102 . PMC   3286241 . PMID   22371677.