Geographic variation in functional and structural traits in ground beetles (the case study of Carabus aeruginosus F.-W., 1822)

We sampled beetles by pitfall traps at two sites of its area: Visimskiy Reserve ((580N 610E, Kirovgrad province, Russia, the western border area) and Kemerovo city (540N 810E, centre area). At first site birch meadows plots were under study, second ? lawns in residential industrial zones dump 25 km from city. 2109 specimen measured for six linear traits. Elytra parameters similar both regions studied, but another traits (pronotum head) significantly larger Reserve. Populations morphometric structure differed all studied. Factors “Province”, “Anthropogen”, “Biotope” “Sex” affected body size populations. conclude, that populations edge area can reproduce survive successfully due to mechanism had been revealed earlier: either or population change.