Carabus solieri

Carabus solieri can reach about {{convert|25|-|40|mm}} in length. The body is quite slender, metallic bright green, golden-green or green-coppery. Elytra are broad and robust, violet-red bordered and longitudinal crossed by ribs. This species mainly feeds on snails and it is crepuscular and nocturnal.

This species occurs in France and in Italy, especially in part of the Western Alps and in Apennines. It is present in the beech and chestnut forests with plenty of rotting leaves, at an elevation of about {{convert|100|-|2500|m}} above sea level.

• Carabus solieri bonadonai Colas, 1948
• Carabus solieri bonnetianus Colas, 1936
• Carabus solieri clairi Géhin, 1885
• Carabus solieri liguranus Breuning, 1933
• Carabus solieri solieri Dejean, 1826

• [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id175635/ Biolib]
• [https://fauna-eu.org/index.php Fauna Europaea]
• G. Allegro [http://www.populus.it/pdf/_2010_CARABUS%20MONFERRATO_QUADERNI%20MUSCANDIA.PDF I Carabus del Monferrato e delle Langhe (Piemonte, Italia) (Coleoptera Carabidae]
• P. Brandmayr - [https://books.google.com/books?id=guGltcZwD4AC&dq=carabus+solieri&pg=PA12 Natural history and applied ecology of carabid beetle]
• Alessandro Minelli - [https://books.google.com/books?id=O3cq-_ICPOYC&dq=carabus+solieri&pg=PA49 La fauna in Italia]

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solieri

Category:Beetles described in 1826

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