Carabus maeander

Carabus maeander, the menderes worm and slug hunter,^[1] is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae. The species fly in May and June, are black in colour and 15 to 23.5 millimetres (0.59 to 0.93 in) long. It is found in northeastern United States and both central and southern Canada (including Alberta).^[2] The species is also found outside of North America. In Russia, it is found in eastern Siberia while in Japan it is known from Hokkaido and Kunashir Islands. It also exists in South Korea.^[3]

Carabus maeander
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Carabus
Species:	C. maeander
Binomial name
Carabus maeander Fischer von Waldheim, 1820
Synonyms
Hemicarabus quelpartensis Kwon & Lee, 1984 Carabus atlanticus Lapouge, 1925 Carabus mongolicus Lapouge, 1905 Carabus lecontei Géhin, 1885 Carabus obscuratus Géhin, 1885 Carabus excatenatus Kraatz, 1880 Carabus excostatus Kraatz, 1880 Carabus simoni Heyden, 1879 Carabus hudsonicus Motschulsky, 1866 Carabus lapilayi Laporte, 1834 Carabus ehrenbergi Fischer von Waldheim, 1829 Carabus incompletus Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 Homoeocarabus nobukii Imura, 2003 Carabus nemorensis Lapouge, 1925 Carabus fureioiensis Kano, 1922 Carabus batesi Lapouge, 1916 Carabus palustris Dejean, 1829

Subspecies

These subspecies belong to the species Carabus maeander:

• Carabus maeander chejuensis Deuve, 1991 (South Korea)
• Carabus maeander evenkiensis^[3] (Russia)
• Carabus maeander lapilayi Castelnau, 1835^[4]
• Carabus maeander maeander Fischer von Waldheim, 1820^[3] (China, North Korea, South Korea, USA, Canada, Russia, Mongolia, Alaska)
• Carabus maeander nobukii (Imura, 2003) (Japan)
• Carabus maeander paludis Géhin, 1885^[5] (China, Japan, Russia)
• †Carabus maeander sangamon Wickham, 1917 (described from Sangamon Peat, Champaign Co.)