Carabus splendens is one of the more spectacularly coloured ground beetles of southern france. Most of the specimens are usually greenish to reddish-coppery coloured. The Pic d' Arradoy is famous for being host to the biggest individuals of Carabus splendes and moreover, there is quite a lot of colour variation found in the specimens on the mountain. This individual shows a rather unusual but beautiful purplish to bordeaux coloured pronotum (thoracic shield).