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Carabidae

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Carabidae

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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, commonly known as ground beetles, is a family of insects within the order Coleoptera. The taxon belongs to the class Insecta and phylum Arthropoda, and is classified under the superfamily Caraboidea and suborder Adephaga. The family was established by Latreille in 1802 and is currently accepted as a valid taxonomic group.

Members of this family have existed for about 250 million years. They inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Their diet includes larvae and gastropods. Carabidae are utilized for biological pest control.

Records of the family are held by institutions such as INECOL in Mexico. The taxon has an occurrence count of 5,350,409 and a record count of 61,248, with 26,072 associated media items.

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

ground beetles

Carabidae

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyCarabidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded5,350,409

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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Museum specimens

Specimen records
61,248
With media
26,072
Family
Carabidae
Collections
INECOL
Recorded in
Mexico
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Adephaga
Image
Carabus auratus with prey.jpg
Has use
biological pest control
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Category:Carabidae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Carabidae
Commons category
Carabidae
taxon common name
carabids
main food source
Gastropoda
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Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
inception
250000000-
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Encyclopedic overview

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carabidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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