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Calosoma inquisitor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Superfamily:	Caraboidea
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Carabinae
Tribe:	Carabini
Genus:	Calosoma
Species:	C. inquisitor
Binomial name
Calosoma inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Carabus inquisitor Linnaeus, 1758 Calosoma viridescens Reitter, 1896 Calosoma clathratum Kolenati, 1845 Calosoma moestum Csiki, 1944 Calosoma comanense Lapouge, 1930 Calosoma cupreofulgens Chapman, 1922 Calosoma coeruleum Ragusa, 1883 Calosoma funereum Ragusa, 1883 Calosoma violaceum Westhoff, 1881 Calosoma nudum Dalla Torre, 1877 Calosoma obscurum Dalla Torre, 1877 Calosoma pulchrum Dalla Torre, 1877 Calosoma viridulum Kraatz, 1877 Calosoma batnense Lallemant, 1868 Calosoma punctiventre Reiche & Saulcy, 1855 Calosoma coeruleomarginatum Letzner, 1850 Calosoma coeruleum Letzner, 1850 Calosoma cupreum Letzner, 1850 Calosoma nigrum Letzner, 1850 Calosoma obscurum Letzner, 1850 Calosoma varians Letzner, 1850 Calosoma viridimarginatum Letzner, 1850 Buprestis antiqua Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785

Calosoma inquisitor (the lesser searcher beetle or caterpillar-hunter) is a species of ground beetle. The species is found in northern Africa, Europe (northward to southern Scandinavia) and East to Asia Minor, Iran and the Caucasus, with isolated populations in eastern Siberia and Japan (although these are also treated as a separate species Calosoma cyanescens by some authors).

The imagines are predatory on various insects and their larvae, especially, feed on Lepidoptera larvae. They can fly well and are found not only on the ground, but also in bushes and on trees. In case of danger the beetle can fall and then threaten by lifting up the front body and spreading the mandibles. The females lay about 50 eggs. The hatching larvae are also predatory and develop very quickly. They're in the ground. The beetles emerge in June, but still linger in a diapause until next spring in the ground.

Subspecies

• Calosoma inquisitor inquisitor (Ireland, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia, North Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Morocco, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia)
• Calosoma inquisitor cupreum Dejean, 1826 (Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia)

References

Calosoma inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)

External links

Media related to Calosoma inquisitor at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Calosoma inquisitor at Wikispecies