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Ground Beetle

Carabus lineatus

Description:

Carabus lineatus is a species of beetle from Carabidae family, that can be found in France, Portugal, and Spain. They are green coloured. This species have 4 subspecies all of which could be found in Spain and France: Carabus lineatus lateralis Chevrolat, 1840 Spain Carabus lineatus lineatus Dejean, 1826 Spain Carabus lineatus salmantitus Bolivar, 1922 Spain Carabus lineatus troberti Kraatz, 1860 Spain, France

Notes:

spotted in my backyard

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bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
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7 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Nothing to worry about, Antonio! Just take the time and take care of your family!

Thanks Bayucca,lately i haved less time than usual,i have all the family with flu :-( but,i'll trie to make the research and the id sugesttions changes in next day's,and thanks again for your concern,to dificult things,we dont have last commented button and some times some suggestios pass me over side,but with time i'll fix things :-)

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Carabidae, Carabus sp. and looks like being Carabus lineatus. But to be 100% sure you probably need other pictures to clearly see the "real" colors, which are changing depending on the angulation of light. So, please, verify, I am sure about Carabus, but not 100% about Lineatus.

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 11 years ago

Hello again Antonio, this one looks like a ground beetle.

Thanks J,i'am going to join the mission and add it,thanks for your concern and comment

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

Beautiful, António! You might want to add this spotting to the Beetles! mission:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1150...

Braga, Portugal

Spotted on Nov 8, 2012
Submitted on Jan 6, 2013

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