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Ground Beetle species - Rasterschallebijter - Carabus cancellatus ssp. tibiscinus
Rasterschallebijter
Carabus cancellatus ssp. tibiscinus
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3801
Date:
10/04/2014
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The individual on the image is a female of the red-legged form, the so called 'rufofemoral' form. Some authors (Kolbe and Breuning) describe different subpopulations based on the occurence of the femoral differences. But it is a fact that throughout the wide range of the different subspecies cancellatus and tibiscinus (West, North and Central Europe) rufofemoral individuals are found (Turin & Al.). Over this wide range entire rufofemoral populations can occur locally.
In Hungary the rufofemoral populations are encountered frequently in the wet habitats in the lowlands.
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