Carabus jankowskii
This ground beetle's head and pronotum often gleam coppery or purple while its elytra shine metallic green, a combination rare among regional ground beetles.
| Where | Wetlands and forests of Korea and China |
|---|---|
| Size | 28 to 42 mm body length |
| When | January to February and May to October |
This ground beetle is large and black bodied, with a head and pronotum that often show a coppery or purplish sheen against greenish or black ground colour, and elytra that are convex, elongate and edged with a metallic green or greenish yellow margin.
It hunts on the ground in wetlands, forests and mountain habitats, and like other Carabus ground beetles it cannot fly, walking between hunting grounds instead.
Traits
Habitat
Woodland
Colour
Black, Green, Metallic
Active
Night
To people
Harmless to people; does not bite or sting.
Activity through the year
Often confused with
Has a more uniformly metallic green or coppery body overall, without the contrasting black elytra and purplish head shown by this species.
Questions
Is Carabus jankowskii dangerous to people?
Harmless to people; does not bite or sting.
When can you see Carabus jankowskii?
Carabus jankowskii can be seen from January to February and May to October, at night.
Plate retouched from a museum specimen photo by Swiss Natural History Collections - SwissNatColl, CC BY 4.0, GBIF Licence
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