Carabus blaptoides

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|image = Carabus (Damaster) blaptoides.JPG

|genus = Carabus

|species = blaptoides

|authority = (Kollar, 1836)

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Carabus blaptoides (syn. Damaster blaptoides, Kollar, 1836) is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae that can be found in Japan and Russia.{{Cite web| title=Carabus blaptoides (Kollar, 1836) | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5WYSB | website=Catalogue of Life | access-date=2023-04-08 }} The species are black coloured,{{cite web|url=https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id175911/|title=Carabus blaptoides (Kollar, 1836)|publisher=Biolib|accessdate=June 15, 2012}} but could have either purple or green pronotum.

Subspecies include:

• Carabus blaptoides blaptoides
• Carabus blaptoides oxuroides
• Carabus blaptoides rugipennis
• †Carabus blaptoides hanae