Smooth ground beetle
Carabus glabratus Paykull, 1790
Status not recordedbeetles
The smooth ground beetle (Carabus glabratus) is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 3.4 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 23 countries, including Austria, Belarus and Belgium.
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Quick facts about the smooth ground beetle
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 2.2 cm – 3.4 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 23 countriessrc for Countries on record
How big is the smooth ground beetle?
Where does the smooth 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 smooth ground beetle is listed for 23 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: CarabCat (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Is the smooth 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 smooth ground beetle classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderColeoptera
- familyCarabidae
- genusCarabus
- SpeciesCarabus glabratus Paykull, 1790
Synonyms Oreocarabus glabratus, Orinocarabus glabratus, Pachystus glabratus
Other names and names in other languages (19)
- střevlík hladkýCzech
- Glat løberDanish
- Glat løbebilleDanish
- Glatter LaufkäferGerman
- SilejooksikEstonian
- korpikiitäjäinenFinnish
- Carabe glabreFrench
- Domború futrinkaHungarian
- Lygusis puošniažygisLithuanian
- Gladde loopkeverDutch
- Gladde schallebijterDutch
- Biegacz gładkiPolish
- Гладкая жужелицаRussian
- Жужелица выпуклаяRussian
- Жужелица гладкаяRussian
- bystruška hladkáSlovak
- gladki krešičSlovenian
- stållöpareSwedish
- Турун гладенькийUkrainian
Relatives of the smooth ground beetle
Other species in the same genus Carabus.
Violet ground beetle
Carabus violaceus
Bronze carabid
Carabus nemoralis
Blue ground beetle
Carabus intricatus
Granulated ground beetle
Carabus granulatus
Carabid beetle
Carabus olympiae
Rough violet ground beetle
Carabus problematicus
CompareSmooth ground beetle vs Violet ground beetleSmooth ground beetle vs Bronze carabidSmooth ground beetle vs Blue ground beetleSmooth ground beetle vs Granulated ground beetle
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the smooth ground beetle?
An adult smooth ground beetle measures 2.2 cm – 3.4 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the smooth ground beetle live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the smooth ground beetle for 23 countries, including Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia and Denmark. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the smooth ground beetle?
The smooth ground beetle (Carabus glabratus) 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.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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