''Carabus blaptoides'' is a species of
ground beetle in the family
Carabidae that can be found in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
and
Russia.
The species are black coloured,
but could have either purple or green
pronotum.
[
Subspecies include:
* '' Carabus blaptoides blaptoides''
* '' Carabus blaptoides oxuroides''
* '' Carabus blaptoides rugipennis''
*†''Carabus blaptoides hanae''
]
References
blaptoides
Beetles described in 1836
Taxa named by Vincenz Kollar
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