Subgenus Carabus

  Carabus (Carabus) arvensis faldermanni Dejean, 1829

It is interesting that everywhere they write: "confined to peat bogs". Near Moscow, there is a fairly well-known point where the species is still common and lives in a wet eutrophic swampy meadow. Activity in late May and early June is quite high. Around the forest, also swampy in places, with sphagnum, but there are no real peatlands. I set traps in the forest in the wettest areas directly into the sphagnum, but C. menetriesi was not there at all, or it was caught a little earlier - in late April and early May. In autumn and early spring, it can be found in the same forest under the bark of fallen trees. It is also interesting that there is practically no C. granulatus here, at least not once, but there are other species-C. nemoralis, C. hortensis, C. glabratus, C. cancellatus. C. granulatus caught me in sufficient numbers during the winter (November) collection in the area of the neighboring railway station also under the bark lying trees, and among them two C. menetriesi