Carabus coriaceus (Carabus coriaceus)

Naming

Subspecies
Carabus coriaceus banaticus Redtenbacher, 1849 - BH, HU, MC, RO, SRB
Carabus coriaceus cerisyi Dejean, 1826 - GR
Carabus coriaceus coriaceus Linne, 1758 - BH, CR, FR, GE, IT, LA, LT, PL, RU
Carabus coriaceus dalmaticus Gehin, 1885 - AL, CR, GR, MC
Carabus coriaceus hopffgarteni Kraatz, 1878 - BU, GR, MC
Carabus coriaceus kindermanni Waltl, 1838 - BU, RO, TR
Carabus coriaceus mediterraneus Born, 1906 - IT
Carabus coriaceus mopsucrenae Peyron, 1858 - TR
Carabus coriaceus ressli Mandl, 1961 - SY, TR
Carabus coriaceus rugifer Kraatz, 1877 - PL, RO, SK, UK

Leather ground beetle (Carabus coriaceus) (at least, that's the literal translation from the German common name, “Lederlaufkäfer”)
The reason why this beetle is covered with so many particles is because it was hiding under a piece of bark on a fallen, decomposing tree. After I took this picture, we restored the cover again… Carabus coriaceus,Deutschland,Geotagged,Germany,Insekt,Käfer,Spring,Tiere

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxenbourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Syria, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

References:

Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia.

http://carabidae.org/taxa/coriaceus-linne-1758

Taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Division	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae
Genus	Carabus
Species	Carabus coriaceus

Photographed in
Austria
Bulgaria
Germany