Scaphinotus angusticollis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Carabidae
- Genus
- Scaphinotus
- Species
- Scaphinotus angusticollis
- Scientific Name
- Scaphinotus angusticollis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scaphinotus angusticollis
Scaphinotus angusticollis, the narrow-collared snail-eating beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America (British Columbia, Quebec, Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington), where it inhabits in coniferous, mixed and deciduous and cultivated fields
Adults are brachypterous, gregarious and nocturnal.
It has been seen to come in various colors, like dark black and deep red. These color morphs appear to be regional.
They have been seen to prey on snails, slugs, earthworms, and spiders.
...Scaphinotus angusticollis in languages:
- English
- Narrow-collared Snail-eating Beetle
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Maronetus
- Nomaretus
- Scaphinotus aeneicollis
- Scaphinotus andrewsii
- Scaphinotus angulatus
- Scaphinotus angusticollis
- Scaphinotus behrensi
- Scaphinotus bilobus
- Scaphinotus bullatus
- Scaphinotus cordatus
- Scaphinotus crenatus
- Scaphinotus cristatus
- Scaphinotus elevatus
- Scaphinotus fissicollis
- Scaphinotus guyotii
- Scaphinotus hatchi
- Scaphinotus infletus
- Scaphinotus interruptus
- Scaphinotus irregularis
- Scaphinotus johnsoni
- Scaphinotus kelloggi
- Scaphinotus lodingi
- Scaphinotus longiceps
- Scaphinotus mannii
- Scaphinotus marginatus
- Scaphinotus merkelii
- Scaphinotus mexicanus
- Scaphinotus obliquus
- Scaphinotus oreophilus
- Scaphinotus parisiana
- Scaphinotus petersi
- Scaphinotus punctatus
- Scaphinotus regularis
- Scaphinotus reichlei
- Scaphinotus relictus
- Scaphinotus ridingsii
- Scaphinotus riversi
- Scaphinotus rugiceps
- Scaphinotus schwarzi
- Scaphinotus snowi
- Scaphinotus striatopunctatus
- Scaphinotus subtilis
- Scaphinotus tricarinatus
- Scaphinotus unicolor
- Scaphinotus unistriatus
- Scaphinotus vandykei
- Scaphinotus velutinus
- Scaphinotus ventricosus
- Scaphinotus viduus
- Scaphinotus violaceus
- Scaphinotus webbi































































































































































