The Golden ground beetle eating a slug on a countryside road
Description:
diurnal hunter & scavenger on sustainable agriculture (never found on intensive agriculture, where pesticides and insecticides are applied)Carabus auratus LINNAEUS, 1761 (Golden ground beetle, Goldlaufkfer oder Goldschmied), Subgenus: Carabus Genus: Carabus (Grolaufkfer)Subfamily: CarabinaeFamily: Carabidae (Ground beetles, Laufkfer)Suborder: AdephagaOrder: Coleoptera (beetles, Kfer)L.: 2-3 cmGermany, Bavaria, ca. 40 km SE Wrzburg, vic. Ochsenfurt, xxx m asl., 15.07.2010(IMG_5130)
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- Arthropoda (arthropods)
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- Coleoptera (beetles)
- Adephaga (adephagans)
- Carabidae (ground beetles)
- Carabus
- Panarthropoda
- Carabus auratus (Golden ground beetle)
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