Nitidulidae, Onthophagi, and minute Carabidae, being the most abundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

Patterns in ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in single-row hedgerows in a Danish agricultural landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributor: Lene Sigsgaard] Reference

Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Other instances are known of this beetle having been caught far out at sea; and this is the more remarkable, as the greater number of the Carabidae seldom or never take wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Purbecks; while Hydrophilidae, Gyrinidae, and Carabidae occur in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

A morning's search at these often produced me a score of species -- Staphylinidae, Nitidulidae, Onthophagi, and minute Carabidae, being the most abundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

I added two fine new Carabidae to my collection; and about eleven o'clock started back again, having many a fall on the slippery steep before I reached the place where I had left my mule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

The fallen trunks in the clearings abounded with golden Buprestidae and curious Brenthidae, and longicorns, while in the forest I found abundance of the smaller Curculionidae, many longicorns, and some fine green Carabidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

More commonly, as with most of the well-known Ground-beetles (Carabidae), the cuticle is less consistently hard, firm sclerites segmentally arranged alternating with considerable tracts of cuticle which remain feebly chitinised and flexible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference

The extensive family of the carnivorous ground-beetles (Carabidae) attains its greatest brilliancy in the temperate zone; while by far the larger proportion of the great families of the longicorns and the weevils, are of obscure colours even in the tropics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Dr. Sharp remarks that this wide distribution and great similarity of the Dytiscidae is of special interest when we recollect that they are nothing but Carabidae fitted for swimming, and yet that the Carabidae are one of the groups in which the tropical members differ widely from the temperate ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Carabidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Carabidae, 52.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference

The most frequent finds are beetles that include click beetles Elateridae (15.8%), weevil Curculionidae (12.8%), jewel beetles Buprestidae (8.4%), dung beetles Scarabaeidae (3.9%), stag beetles Lucanidae (1.7%), ground beetles Carabidae (1.4%), water beetles Dascillidae (1.4%), longhorn beetles Cerambycidae (0.5%), and rove beetles Staphylinidae (0.26%).    From Wordnik.com.  [Messel Pit fossil site, Germany] Reference

Among common invertebrate species are typical desert beetles (Tenebrionidae, Scrabaeidae, Carabidae, Curculionidae), scorpions (Mesobuthus eupeus, M. caucasicus, Orthochirus scrobliculosus), many desert spiders (Artema transcaspica, Dysdera aculeata, Oecobius nadiae, Latrodectus tridecemguttatus, Argiope lobata, Lycosa alticeps, Drassodes proximus, Pseuducius cinctus, Yllenus bajan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Caspian lowland desert] Reference