Carabidae
Also known as ground beetle, ground beetles, carabid, carabids, carabid family, ground beetle family
family of beetles which are almost or completely flightless and usually carnivorous
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Carabidae is a family of beetles that are mostly or entirely unable to fly and typically hunt other small creatures for food. These ground-dwelling predators are important for controlling populations of pests and other insects in their environments.
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Species
ground beetles
Carabidae
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyCarabidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
步行蟲科（Carabidae，Ground beetles）也稱為步甲科，是鞘翅目（甲蟲）中，世界性分佈（英语：cosmopolitan distribution）的一個科。全世界有超過四萬種，北美洲有二千種，而欧洲有二千七百種。在2015年統計時，是動物界物種數最多的十個分科之一。如虎甲及放屁蟲等都屬於步行蟲科。
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A crucifix ground beetle (Panagaeus cruxmajor) got Charles Darwin into trouble in 1828. Lebia tricolor, genus Lebia, in the family of ground beetles, searching for prey. Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal families. They belong to the suborder Adephaga. Members of the family are primarily carnivorous, but some members are herbivorous or omnivorous.
Description and ecology