Carabus scabrosus tauricus

{{Short description|Subspecies of beetle}}

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|genus = Carabus

|species = scabrosus

|subspecies = tauricus

|authority = Bonelli, 1810

|synonyms =

• Carabus aeneus Motschulsky, 1850
• Carabus nigritulus Kraatz, 1876
• Carabus purpureus Kraatz, 1876
• Carabus viridissimus Kraatz, 1876

|synonyms_ref = {{Cite web |title=Carabus scabrosus tauricus Bonelli, 1810 |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8LW77 |website=Catalogue of Life |access-date=2023-04-08}}

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Carabus scabrosus tauricus is a subspecies of the beetle Carabus scabrosus endemic to Crimea.{{cite web |url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=387227 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140311164810/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=387227 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-11 |title=Carabus (Procerus) scabrosus tauricus Bonelli, 1810 |work=Fauna Europaea |version=2.6 |date=2013-04-09 |accessdate=2013-05-17}}

Body length up to 52 mm. Colour variable from the blue, passing into violet to green or almost black. The downside is black, with a metallic sheen. Elytra and pronotum wrinkled, granular structure. Crimean beetle forms several forms, differing mainly painting.

Active at different times of day. Quickly run. Predator, feeding on terrestrial molluscs - mainly land snail. Eating bugs do not bite the snail shell, shellfish and eating away dipping his head and pronotum at the mouth of the shell. Well-fed beetles can burrow into the soil for a few days.