Africa-wide Caterpillar Hunter Beetle (Calosoma senegalense)

About Africa-wide Caterpillar Hunter Beetle (Calosoma senegalense)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Insects
• Order: Beetles
• Family: Ground Beetles

Calosoma senegalense is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae. It was described by Dejean in 1831. This species is found in Cape Verde, Mauretania, Senegal/Gambia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Sudan, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Madagascar.

Source: Wikipedia