Carabus cancellatus, the latticed worm and slug hunter, is a ground beetle common in Central- and Northern Europe and Siberia. It has also been introduced into North America. It inhabits open country areas.
Its length is .Adults are mostly nocturnal, but also diurnal during the reproductive period.A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)
Subspecies It has several subspecies: Carabus cancellatus alessiensis Apfelbeck 1901 (Albania) Carabus cancellatus cancellatus Illiger, 1798 (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia) Carabus cancellatus corpulentus Kraatz, 1880 (Croatia, former Yugoslavia, Montenegro) Carabus cancellatus dahli Heer, 1841 (Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina) Carabus cancellatus fusus Palliardi, 1825 (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain) Carabus cancellatus graniger Palliardi, 1825 (former Yugoslavia, Romania) Carabus cancellatus intermedius Dejean, 1826 (Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey) Carabus cancellatus tibiscinus Csiki, 1906 (Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, former Yugoslavia, Romania)
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Picture gallery Carabus cancellatus on You Tube