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Carabus goryi
Carabus goryi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Carabus
Species:
C. goryi
Binomial name
Carabus goryi
Dejean, 1831
Synonyms
  • Carabus clarkei Blumenthal, 1958
  • Carabus limbatus Say, 1823

Carabus goryi, Gory's worm and slug hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America[1][2][3][4] (Ontario, Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia), where it inhabits cool moist forests, orchards and cultivated fields.

Adults are brachypterous, gregarious and nocturnal. They prey on the larvae of Lymantria dispar and various soft bodied insect larvae.[5]

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