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''Scaphinotus'' is a genus of
beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
s in the family
Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal fami ...
. There are at least 60 species, all native to North America. They eat
snail A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class G ...
s and are generally limited to the moist environments where snails live. These beetles are flightless.


Species

These 64 species belong to the genus ''Scaphinotus'': * '' Scaphinotus aeneicollis'' (Beutenmüller, 1903) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus andrewsii'' (T. Harris, 1839) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus angulatus'' (T. Harris, 1839) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus angusticollis'' (Mannerheim in Fischer von Waldheim, 1823) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus behrensi'' (Roeschke, 1907) i c g * '' Scaphinotus bilobus'' (Say, 1823) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus bullatus'' Van Dyke, 1924 i c g b * '' Scaphinotus cavicollis'' (LeConte, 1859) i c g b (concave-collared snail-eating beetle) * '' Scaphinotus cordatus'' (LeConte, 1853) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus crenatus'' (Motschulsky, 1859) i c g * '' Scaphinotus cristatus'' (T. Harris, 1839) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus debilis'' (LeConte, 1853) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus elevatus'' (Fabricius, 1787) i c g b (eastern snail eater) * '' Scaphinotus fissicollis'' (LeConte, 1853) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus guyotii'' (LeConte, 1863) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus hatchi'' Beer, 1971 i c g * '' Scaphinotus hoffmani'' (Barr, 2009) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus hubbardi'' (Schwarz, 1895) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus imperfectus'' (G. Horn, 1861) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus incompletus'' (Schwarz, 1895) i c g * '' Scaphinotus infletus'' Allen & Carlton, 1988 i c g b * '' Scaphinotus interruptus'' (Menetries, 1843) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus irregularis'' (Beutenmüller, 1903) i b * '' Scaphinotus johnsoni'' Van Dyke, 1924 i c g b * '' Scaphinotus kelloggi'' (Dury, 1912) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus labontei'' van den Berghe, 1994 * '' Scaphinotus levis'' Barr * '' Scaphinotus liebecki'' Van Dyke, 1936 i c g b (Liebeck's snail-eating beetle) * '' Scaphinotus lodingi'' (Valentine, 1935) i c g * '' Scaphinotus longiceps'' Van Dyke, 1924 i c g b (Humboldt ground beetle) * '' Scaphinotus macrogonus'' Bates, 1891 c g * '' Scaphinotus mannii'' Wickham, 1919 i c g * '' Scaphinotus marginatus'' (Fischer von Waldheim, 1820) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus merkelii'' (G. Horn, 1890) i c g * '' Scaphinotus mexicanus'' Bates, 1882 c g * '' Scaphinotus obliquus'' (LeConte, 1868) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus oreophilus'' (Rivers, 1890) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus parisiana'' Allen & Carlton, 1988 i c g b * '' Scaphinotus persimilis'' Barr * '' Scaphinotus petersi'' Roeschke, 1907 i c g b * '' Scaphinotus punctatus'' (LeConte, 1859) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus regularis'' (LeConte, 1884) i c g * '' Scaphinotus reichlei'' (Barr, 2009) i c g * '' Scaphinotus relictus'' (G. Horn, 1881) i c g * '' Scaphinotus ridingsii'' (Bland, 1863) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus riversi'' (Roeschke, 1907) i c g * '' Scaphinotus rugiceps'' (G. Horn, 1872) i c g * '' Scaphinotus schwarzi'' (Beutenmüller, 1913) i c g * '' Scaphinotus serus'' (Scudder, 1900) c g * '' Scaphinotus snowi'' (LeConte, 1881) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus striatopunctatus'' (Chaudoir, 1844) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus subtilis'' (Schaum, 1863) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus tenuis'' (Casey, 1914) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus tricarinatus'' (Casey, 1914) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus tusquitee'' Barr * '' Scaphinotus unicolor'' (Fabricius, 1787) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus unistriatus'' (Darlington, 1932) i c g * '' Scaphinotus valentinei'' Barr * '' Scaphinotus vandykei'' Roeschke, 1907 i c g b * '' Scaphinotus velutinus'' (Ménétriés, 1843) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus ventricosus'' (Dejean, 1831) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus viduus'' (Dejean, 1826) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus violaceus'' (LeConte, 1863) i c g b * '' Scaphinotus webbi'' Bell, 1959 i c g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net


References


External links

* Carabinae Carabidae genera {{Carabinae-stub