Calosoma senegalense

Species of beetle

Calosoma senegalense

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Suborder:  | Adephaga
Family:  | Carabidae
Genus:  | Calosoma
Species:  |

C. senegalense

Binomial name
Calosoma senegalense

Dejean, 1831

Synonyms

* Calosoma mosambicense Klug, 1853

Calosoma senegalense is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae.[1] It was described by Dejean in 1831. This species is found in Cape Verde, Mauretania, Senegal/Gambia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Sudan, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Madagascar.[1]

Adults reach a length of 25-30 mm and have a dark bronze colour. Adults are diurnal and nocturnal.

They prey on other insects, and was introduced to Hawaii as a possible predator of Spodoptera mauritia, but acclimatization was unsuccessful.[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Calosoma senegalense Dejean, 1831". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
2. ^ Calosoma of the world

Taxon identifiers

Calosoma senegalense|

* Wikidata: Q5023826
* Wikispecies: Calosoma senegalense
* BioLib: 1124812
* EoL: 10281883
* GBIF: 8255273
* iNaturalist: 631169
* NCBI: 2714755
* Open Tree of Life: 6204169

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