Least ConcernGreen Tiger Beetle
Cicindela campestris
39 countries153 parks
Species group · Insects
WAnimals has 24 species of beetle, spread across 16 families (Buprestidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Cicindelidae, Cleridae, Dermestidae, Dytiscidae, Geotrupidae, Gyrinidae, Histeridae, Passalidae, Scarabaeidae, Scolytidae, Silphidae, Staphylinidae).
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 142 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Its larvae live in vertical burrows up to 25 cm deep.
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Its larvae are parasitised by the solitary wasp Methoca ichneumonoides.
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It can run at up to 60 cm a second, an exceptional speed for its size.
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It can eat its own weight in slugs and snails in just 24 hours.
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French farmers historically moved it from field to field for biological pest control.
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It cannot fly: its hind wings are vestigial.
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It stores a bubble of air under its wing cases, which lets it breathe underwater for long spells while it hunts small invertebrates.
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Its larva, known as the water tiger, has hollow jaws with which it injects digestive enzymes into its prey and then sucks out the liquefied tissue.
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Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 24.
