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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuperfamily Caraboidea — very manycarabid beetles .
Etymologies
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Upland invertebrate species include gastropod molluscs and many species of insects belonging to the Carabidae, Gryllidae, Acrididae and the Forciculidae (beetle, grasshopper, cricket and earwig) families, of which more than 20 are endemic to the massif.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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Patterns in ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in single-row hedgerows in a Danish agricultural landscape.
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*Note added later: Since I posted the picture of the beach beetle on BugGuide.net, it has been identified as a Scarites sp. in the family Carabidae as I had suspected.
Who preys on Truncatella AYDIN 2008
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*Note added later: Since I posted the picture of the beach beetle on BugGuide.net, it has been identified as a Scarites sp. in the family Carabidae as I had suspected.
Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008
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Evidence from feeding trials with the slug predator Pterostichus melanarius Coleoptera: Carabidae.
Archive 2006-12-01 AYDIN 2006
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Evidence from feeding trials with the slug predator Pterostichus melanarius Coleoptera: Carabidae.
Eat Tandonia AYDIN 2006
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The carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius Coleoptera: Carabidae is a predator of slugs.
Eat Tandonia AYDIN 2006
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The carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius Coleoptera: Carabidae is a predator of slugs.
Archive 2006-12-01 AYDIN 2006
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Nitidulidae, Onthophagi, and minute Carabidae, being the most abundant.
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DARLINGTON WAS a museum curator and a taxonomist who specialized in the Carabidae, a family of Coleoptera commonly known as the ground beetles.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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