Snail-eating ground beetle

phylum	Arthropoda	Carabus blaptoides is a species of ground beetle from Carabidae family that can be found in Japan and Russia. The species are black coloured, but could have either purple or green pronotum. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to ground beetles
Class	Insecta
order	Coleoptera
family	Carabidae
genus	Carabus
species	C. blaptoides

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  Yujin Japanese Carabid Beetle

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  Yujin Japanese Carabid Beetle with snailhouse