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Roaming Caterpiller Hunter
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Roaming Caterpiller Hunter

Calosoma vagans

Calosoma vagans, the roaming caterpillar hunter, is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae. It was described by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean. This species is found in Argentina, Chile and Peru, where it inhabits areas with cold winters.

Adults are nocturnal.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 780526.