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Caterpillar-hunter Beetles
Calosoma
Calosoma is a genus of large ground beetles that occur primarily throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and are referred to as caterpillar hunters or searchers. Many of the 167 species are largely or entirely black, but some have bright metallic coloration. They produce a foul-smelling spray from glands near the tip of the abdomen. They are recognizable due to their large thorax, which is almost the size of their abdomen and much wider than their head.
21 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Calodrepa
subgenusCalodrepa
Calosoma
subgenusCalosoma
Castrida
subgenusCastrida
Camedula
subgenusCamedula
Chrysostigma
subgenusChrysostigma
Australodrepa
subgenusAustralodrepa
Campalita
subgenusCampalita
Carabosoma
subgenusCarabosoma
Callistenia
subgenusCallistenia
Callitropa
subgenusCallitropa
Caminara
subgenusCaminara
Ctenosta
subgenusCtenosta
Callisthenes
subgenusCallisthenes
Charmosta
subgenusCharmosta
Carabomorphus
subgenusCarabomorphus
Carabomimus
subgenusCarabomimus
Blaptosoma
subgenusBlaptosoma
Orinodromus
subgenusOrinodromus
Calopachys
subgenusCalopachys
Carabophanus
subgenusCarabophanus
Carabops
subgenusCarabops
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Calosoma in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82765.