Carabus
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Carabus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, and was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus.
Carabus ulrichii, Romania
Carabus auratus, Germany
Carabus granulatus, Canada
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae of 1758–1759, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta". He described the Insecta as:
Scarabaeus hercules (now Dynastes hercules) was the first species in Linnaeus' class "Insecta".