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Calosoma schayeri, common name Green Carab Beetle or the Saffron Beetle) is a species in the Carabidae family that are native to Australia. A terrestrial Green Carabid Beetle, that are active predators, especially found hunting caterpillars.
Found in urban areas and forests, this specimen was found on the floor of a local supermarket in Alice Springs and was relocated to outside on a garden verge. Note that it is missing a leg.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Adephaga
- Superfamily: Caraboidea
- Family: Carabidae
- Subfamily: Carabinae
- Tribe: Carabini
- Genus: Calosoma
- Subgenus: Calosoma (Australodrepa)
- Species: Calosoma schayeri
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Mark Ridgway for ID, member of Australasian Beetles Only, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180404322409639/
- Many thanks to Mark Hanlon and Allen Sundholm for confirmation of ID, Australasian Beetles Only, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180404322409639/
- Calosoma (Australodrepa) schayeri Erichson, 1842, Green Carab Beetle, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/9824ad43-a8bf-4693-8f06-0ae2a99592bf
- Green Carab Beetle (Calosoma schayeri), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/201385-Calosoma-schayeri
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