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Woodland ground beetle

Carabus sylvosus Say, 1823

Status not recordedbeetles

The woodland ground beetle (Carabus sylvosus) is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Canada.

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Quick facts about the woodland ground beetle

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the woodland ground beetle live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The woodland ground beetle is listed for 1 country.

Canada
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Canada

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the woodland ground beetle endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the woodland ground beetle classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyCarabidae
  6. genusCarabus
  7. SpeciesCarabus sylvosus Say, 1823

Synonyms Carabus lherminieri, Eurycarabus sylvosus, Tanaocarabus sylvosus

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • Sylvan worm and slug hunterEnglish
  • Carabe à marges bleues des forêtsFrench

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the woodland ground beetle

Other species in the same genus Carabus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the woodland ground beetle live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the woodland ground beetle for 1 country: Canada. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the woodland ground beetle?

The woodland ground beetle (Carabus sylvosus) belongs to the family Carabidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Woodland ground beetle (Carabus sylvosus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/carabus-sylvosus

MLA

“Woodland ground beetle (Carabus sylvosus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/carabus-sylvosus.

BibTeX
@misc{carabus_sylvosus_2026,
  title = {Woodland ground beetle (Carabus sylvosus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/carabus-sylvosus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}