#3439 · 🪲 beetles
Goudglanzende schallebijter
Carabus auronitens
📍 Lahr/Schwarzwald, Deutschland
📍 Tervuren Park, Tervuren, Flemish Brabant, BE
📍 09400 Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs, France
📍 La Chapelle-près-Sées, Basse-Normandie, France
📍 Zoo Praha, Praha, Hlavní město Praha, CZ
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jürgen Mangelsdorf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Axel Gosseries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Nuuuuuuuuuuul · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Lahr/Schwarzwald, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Tervuren Park, Tervuren, Flemish Brabant, BE:© slobirder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 09400 Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs, France:© Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. La Chapelle-près-Sées, Basse-Normandie, France:© Bernard DUPONT · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Zoo Praha, Praha, Hlavní město Praha, CZ:© Vit Lukas · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Carabus auronitens is a species of beetle in family Carabidae which was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1792.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 13 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,420 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1792 (234 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Goudglanzende schallebijter
- scientific name
- Carabus auronitens
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- sightings in NL
- 13
- sightings in Europe
- 4,234
- sightings worldwide
- 4,420
- GBIF records in NL
- 846
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Carabidae
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Carabus granulatus
👀 142 in NL
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Calosoma inquisitor
👀 137 in NL
#3252 📷 10Rough Violet Ground Beetle
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Carabus problematicus
👀 122 in NL
#3256 📷 10Bronze Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Tuinschallebijter
Carabus nemoralis
👀 113 in NL
#3286 📷 10European Gazelle Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone kortnek
Nebria brevicollis
👀 79 in NL
#3290 📷 10Strawberry Seed Beetle
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👀 77 in NL
#3338 📷 10Akkersnelloper
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#3355 📷 10Gewone roodkruin
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 325782, Wikidata Q1535734, GBIF 4470628, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.