Carabus vietinghoffii, Vietinghoff's worm and slug hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys 245: 1-1722.
Subspecies Carabus vietinghoffii bowringii Chaudoir, 1863 (China, North Korea, Russia) Carabus vietinghoffii dajianensis Deuve & Li, 2011 (China) Carabus vietinghoffii fulgidiformis Obydov, 2008 (China) Carabus vietinghoffii fulgidus Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 (China, Russia) Carabus vietinghoffii vietinghoffii (USA, Canada, Russia, Alaska)
References
Riley K, Browne R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". . ZooKeys 147: 601–621.
Further reading
Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (2000). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Carabus vietinghoffii