Carabus cancellatus, the latticed worm and slug hunter, is a ground beetle common in Central- and Northern Europe and Siberia. It has also been introduced into North America. It inhabits open country areas.
Its length is .Adults are mostly nocturnal, but also diurnal during the reproductive period.
Subspecies
It has several subspecies:
- Carabus cancellatus alessiensis <small>Apfelbeck 1901</small> (Albania)
- Carabus cancellatus cancellatus <small>Illiger, 1798</small> (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia)
- Carabus cancellatus corpulentus <small>Kraatz, 1880</small> (Croatia, former Yugoslavia, Montenegro)
- Carabus cancellatus dahli <small>Heer, 1841</small> (Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
- Carabus cancellatus fusus <small>Palliardi, 1825</small> (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain)
- Carabus cancellatus graniger <small>Palliardi, 1825</small> (former Yugoslavia, Romania)
- Carabus cancellatus intermedius <small>Dejean, 1826</small> (Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey)
- Carabus cancellatus tibiscinus <small>Csiki, 1906</small> (Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, former Yugoslavia, Romania)
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