Scaphinotus unicolor

Scaphinotus unicolor, the one-color snail-eating beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America^[1][2][3][4] (Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia), where it inhabits forests, often along streams and near springs.

Scaphinotus unicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Scaphinotus
Species:	S. unicolor
Binomial name
Scaphinotus unicolor (Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms
Carabus unicolor Fabricius, 1787 Scaphinotus hunteri Crotch, 1871 Scaphinotus grandis Gistel, 1857 Scaphinotus heros T.W. Harris, 1839 Scaphinotus shoemakeri Leng, 1914 Scaphinotus elevatus floridanus Leng, 1915

Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal.^[5]

Subspecies

These four subspecies belong to the species Scaphinotus unicolor:

• Scaphinotus unicolor floridanus Leng, 1915
• Scaphinotus unicolor heros T.W.Harris, 1839
• Scaphinotus unicolor shoemakeri Leng, 1914
• Scaphinotus unicolor unicolor (Fabricius, 1787)