Scaphinotus ventricosus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Carabidae
- Genus
- Scaphinotus
- Species
- Scaphinotus ventricosus
- Scientific Name
- Scaphinotus ventricosus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scaphinotus ventricosus
Scaphinotus ventricosus, the potbellied snail-eating beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America (California, Oregon), where it inhabits deciduous forests and poison-oak thickets.
Adults are brachypterous, gregarious and nocturnal.
...Scaphinotus ventricosus in languages:
- English
- Pot-bellied Snail-eating Beetle
- English
- Potbellied Snail-eating Beetle
- English
- Potbelly 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
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