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Carabus nemoralis · miškinis puošniažygis

ukbeetles.co.uk/carabus-nemoralis This is a locally common and often abundant species throughout central and northern Europe. Adults are 20-26mm and broadly rounded, greenish or purple bronze, usually with the pronotal and elytral margins contrasting red or green. Head shiny black and roughly sculptured, with small but very prominent and convex eyes, robust mandibles and long antennae. Palps black with pale tips, penultimate labial palpomere with 2 setae (occasionally an extra one on one side) on the inner margin. Pronotum transverse (8:5) with explanate margins and posteriorly produced hind angles, surface sculpture weak on the disc and stronger towards the margins, black with the lateral and basal margins metallic bronze or purple. Elytra broadly rounded and convex, entirely metallic; green with bronze, red or purple explanate margins, each with numerous lines of irregular longitudinal granules, without more prominent ridges or carinae, and with 3 rows of small and shallow fovea which are golden-metallic at the centre. Legs long and robust, each tibia with 2 long apical spurs, pro-tibiae smooth internally i.e. without an antennal-cleaning notch. Basal pro-tarsal segments dilated in the male.‥

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