Description Taken at night on tree trunk in Singapore forest. Quote from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_b… Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, approximately 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.[2] It is one of the top 10 largest animal families, as of 2015. Although their body shapes and coloring vary somewhat, most are shiny black or metallic and have ridged wing covers (elytra). The elytra…
