Scaphinotus unicolor, the one-color snail-eating beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America (Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia), where it inhabits forests, often along streams and near springs.
Adults are brachypterous and nocturnal.A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)
Subspecies These four subspecies belong to the species Scaphinotus unicolor: Scaphinotus unicolor floridanus Leng, 1915 Scaphinotus unicolor heros T.W.Harris, 1839 Scaphinotus unicolor shoemakeri Leng, 1914 Scaphinotus unicolor unicolor (Fabricius, 1787)
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