Wrinkle-winged Calosoma

Calosoma marginale, the rimmed caterpillar hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Central America and North America. This species is found in Costa Rica, Mexico (Chihuahua, Michoacan, Neuvo Leon, Tamaulipas) and the United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas), where is inhabits prairies, pastures, cultivated fields and wastelands.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Wrinkle-winged Calosoma being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Calosoma peregrinator
• Calosoma olivieri
• Calosoma macrum
• Calosoma maderae
• Calosoma vagans
• Calosoma semilaeve

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Calosoma

Species

Calosoma marginale

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