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Carabus goryi
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| Carabus goryi | |
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| Carabus goryi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Carabus |
| Species: | C. goryi
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| Binomial name | |
| Carabus goryi Dejean, 1831
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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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Carabus goryi Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Carabus goryi". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Carabus goryi species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
- ^ A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)
Further reading
[edit]- Brezina, Boleslav (1999). World Catalogue of the Genus Carabus L. Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-954-642-067-1.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.
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