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Carabus
Taxonomy
Carabus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Carabinae, Carabini, Carabici.
It was assigned to Eleutherata by Illiger (1798); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1792), Paykull (1798), Fabricius (1798); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796), Marsham (1802); to Metallici by Latreille (1802), Latreille (1804); to Carabiques by Dejean (1821); to Carabidae by Scudder (1900), Zhang (1989), Carpenter (1992); and to Carabini by LeConte (1861), Nel (1987), Tamutis et al. (2011), Bouchard et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Eleutherata by Illiger (1798); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1792), Paykull (1798), Fabricius (1798); to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796), Marsham (1802); to Metallici by Latreille (1802), Latreille (1804); to Carabiques by Dejean (1821); to Carabidae by Scudder (1900), Zhang (1989), Carpenter (1992); and to Carabini by LeConte (1861), Nel (1987), Tamutis et al. (2011), Bouchard et al. (2011).
Species
C. (Apotomopterus), C. (Archicarabus), C. (Aulonocarabus), C. (Damaster), C. (Hemicarabus), C. (Homoeocarabus), C. (Megadontus), C. (Melancarabus), C. (Ohomopterus), C. (Tachypus), C. (Tanaocarabus), C. agassizi, C. clathratus, C. clatratus, C. foveolatus, C. granulatus, C. hortensis, C. jeffersoni, C. kollari, C. maderae, C. maeandroides, C. mecothoracus, C. neli, C. novalensis, C. ovalus, C. praearvensis, C. vietinghoffii
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Carabus Linnaeus p. 413 |
| 1761 | Carabus Linnaeus p. 217 |
| 1763 | Carabus Scopoli p. 85 |
| 1764 | Carabus Müller p. 20 |
| 1766 | Carabus Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Carabus Linnaeus p. 668 |
| 1768 | Carabus Strøm p. 329 |
| 1770 | Carabus Drury |
| 1771 | Carabus Forster p. 58 |
| 1775 | Carabus Fabricius p. 235 |
| 1776 | Carabus Müller p. 75 |
| 1792 | Carabus Fabricius p. 124 |
| 1796 | Carabus Latreille p. 73 |
| 1798 | Carabus Fabricius p. 54 |
| 1798 | Carabus Illiger p. 136 |
| 1798 | Carabus Paykull p. 98 |
| 1802 | Carabus Latreille p. 91 |
| 1802 | Carabus Marsham p. 431 |
| 1804 | Carabus Latreille p. 141 |
| 1821 | Carabus Dejean p. 5 |
| 1861 | Carabus LeConte p. 10 |
| 1900 | Carabus Scudder p. 14 |
| 1987 | Carabus Nel |
| 1989 | Carabus Zhang p. 98 |
| 1992 | Carabus Carpenter |
| 2011 | Carabus Bouchard et al. |
| 2011 | Carabus Tamutis et al. |
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G. Carabus Linnaeus 1758
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Subg. Carabus (Aulonocarabus) Reitter 1896
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Carabus (Aulonocarabus) truncaticollis Eschscholtz 1833
Subg. Carabus (Hemicarabus) Gehin 1876
Subg. Carabus (Homoeocarabus) Reitter 1896
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Carabus (Homoeocarabus) maeander Fischer von Waldheim 1822
†Carabus agassizi Barthelemy-Lapommeraye 1846
Carabus clathratus Linnaeus 1761
Carabus clatratus Linnaeus 1761
†Carabus foveolatus Piton 1935
Carabus granulatus Linnaeus 1758
Carabus hortensis Linnaeus 1758
†Carabus jeffersoni Scudder 1900
Carabus kollari Palliardi 1825
Carabus maderae Fabricius 1775
†Carabus maeandroides Lomnicki 1894
†Carabus mecothoracus Zhang 1989
†Carabus neli Deuve 1998
†Carabus novalensis Omboni 1886
†Carabus ovalus Hong and Wang 1986
†Carabus praearvensis Lomnicki 1894
Carabus vietinghoffii Adams 1812
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available