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Carabus nemoralis
Very large beetle found in leaf litter.
Carabidae, Carabinae, Carabini, Carabus sp. and looks like being Carabus nemoralis. Please, verify! There are tons of simialr ones around. Check size (18-22 mm or bugguide has it 22-25 mm!) and the purple color on the pronotum and maybe at the margin of the body, depending on the light or light angulation.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainlaufkä...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabus_ne...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/844813/bgi...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/59009/bgpa...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/736734/bgp...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13702