Carabus scabrosus, common name huge violet ground beetle, is a species of beetle of the family Carabidae.
Description
Carabus scabrosus can reach about in length and about in width in the broadest part of elytra. This is among the largest of the known Carabus beetles. The basic colour varies from bluish-black to violet or dark reddish brown. Black varieties of the beetle typically also show a high absorption in the near-infrared part of the spectrum.
The thorax is broad, truncated anteriorly and posteriorly, very slightly convex. The elytrtra are oval, convex, and covered throughout with small tubercles. Also, the pronotum has a rugose, granular surface.
Subspecies
Carabus scabrosus akbesianus Breuning, 1975 Carabus scabrosus amasicus Csiki, 1927 Carabus scabrosus armenius Zaitzev, 1930 Carabus scabrosus audouini Brullé, 1835 Carabus scabrosus bakurianicola Rataj, 2018 Carabus scabrosus bureschianus Breuning, 1928 Carabus scabrosus callipygius Cavazzuti, 1986 Carabus scabrosus caucasicus Adams, 1817 Carabus scabrosus colchicus Motschulsky, 1844 Carabus scabrosus culminicola (Cavazzuti, 1989) Carabus scabrosus dardanellicus Kraatz, 1886 Carabus scabrosus demiddelaerae Rataj, 2018 Carabus scabrosus elbursianus Mandl, 1958 Carabus scabrosus estegeicus (Cavazzuti, 1989) Carabus scabrosus fallettianus (Cavazzuti, 1997) Carabus scabrosus farnazae Deuve, 2006 Carabus scabrosus ispiratus Cavazzuti, 1986 Carabus scabrosus mentor Blumenthal & Breuning, 1967 Carabus scabrosus montisabanti Schweiger, 1962 Carabus scabrosus munzurensis Cavazzuti & Lassalle, 1987 Carabus scabrosus propinquus Csiki, 1927 Carabus scabrosus scabrosus Olivier, 1795 Carabus scabrosus schuberti Breuning, 1968 Carabus scabrosus sommeri Mannerheim, 1844 Carabus scabrosus sterilis Bodemeyer, 1915 Carabus scabrosus tauricus Bonelli, 1810 Carabus scabrosus weidneri (Lassalle, 1990)
References
Biolib Fauna europaea The Penny Encyclopedia, vol. 6
Volovnik, S. V., Suchkov S. I. The huge violet ground beettle (Carabus (Procerus) scabrosus crimeanus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) was found outside of the Crimea // Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 2018, 8 (3): 52–56.
External links Beetles of Russia Galerie-insecte