Gabriele Carabus Motta
Carabus olympiae ♀
Carabus olympiae was first described in 1855 and is known from only one alpine valley in Italy.
Because of its rarity and beauty, the beetle was over-collected in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was feared extinct after the first world war but the beetle’s distribution was discovered to be slightly larger than first supposed.
Carabus olympiae is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species as vulnerable.
Carabus olympiae ♀
Carabus olympiae was first described in 1855 and is known from only one alpine valley in Italy.
Because of its rarity and beauty, the beetle was over-collected in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was feared extinct after the first world war but the beetle’s distribution was discovered to be slightly larger than first supposed.
Carabus olympiae is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species as vulnerable.