Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Alternative spelling: Damaster
Parent taxon: Carabus according to M. Hayashi et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Carabus (Apotomopterus), Carabus (Archicarabus), Carabus (Aulonocarabus), Carabus (Hemicarabus), Carabus (Homoeocarabus), Carabus (Megadontus), Carabus (Melancarabus), Carabus (Ohomopterus), Carabus (Tachypus), Carabus (Tanaocarabus), Carabus agassizi, Carabus clathratus, Carabus clatratus, Carabus foveolatus, Carabus granulatus, Carabus hortensis, Carabus jeffersoni, Carabus kollari, Carabus maderae, Carabus maeandroides, Carabus mecothoracus, Carabus neli, Carabus novalensis, Carabus ovalus, Carabus praearvensis, Carabus vietinghoffii
Subtaxa: Carabus (Damaster) blaptoides
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Kawatoko Kawachi-machi, Kumamoto Prefecture (Quaternary of Japan)