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Bilobed Snail-eating Beetle

Scaphinotus bilobus

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Carabidae

Scaphinotus bilobus, the bilobed snail-eating beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America (Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Wisconsin), where it inhabits coniferous and mixed forests, often along rivers and lakes. Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 1