#3451 · 🪲 beetles
Blue Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Blauwe schallebijter ·Carabus intricatus
📍 Offenburg, Deutschland
📍 Unnamed Road, Bodmin PL30 4EQ, UK
📍 Hut Karandilla, Sliven municipality, Bulgaria
📍 Friend Firefly Submission
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sepp Schmid · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © nutzl0s · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Offenburg, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Unnamed Road, Bodmin PL30 4EQ, UK:© abigailparravani · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Hut Karandilla, Sliven municipality, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Friend Firefly Submission:© Tiothebeetle · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Carabus intricatus , the blue ground beetle , is a species of ground beetle found in Europe.
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 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,959 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blue Ground Beetle
- Nederlands
- Blauwe schallebijter
- scientific name
- Carabus intricatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 5,761
- sightings worldwide
- 5,959
- GBIF records in NL
- 41
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Carabidae
#3239 📷 10Granulated Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Kettingschallebijter
Carabus granulatus
👀 142 in NL
#3243 📷 7Lesser Searcher Beetle
🇳🇱 Kleine poppenrover
Calosoma inquisitor
👀 137 in NL
#3252 📷 10Rough Violet Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Blauwzwarte schallebijter
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
🇳🇱 Roodpoothalmkruiper
Harpalus rufipes
👀 77 in NL
#3338 📷 10Akkersnelloper
Anchomenus dorsalis
👀 49 in NL
#3355 📷 10Gewone roodkruin
Anisodactylus binotatus
👀 46 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 96735, Wikidata Q1265900, GBIF 4471016, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.