White-striped tiger beetle
Jundlandia lemniscata
The white-striped tiger beetle is a small hunting beetle from North and Central America. Tiger beetles have long legs and big jaws. They run very fast and grab other insects, just like a tiny tiger.
Lives in
North America and Central America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It has strong little jaws for catching insects, so let it go on its way.
What does it eat?
It hunts other small insects, running them down on the ground.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
White-striped tiger beetle about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Tiger beetles are some of the fastest running insects in the world.
2
It belongs to a group called the flashy tiger beetles.
3
There are three kinds of it, and one of them is named after Baja California in Mexico.
you asked
Most asked questions about White-striped tiger beetle
?Is the white-striped tiger beetle dangerous?
No. It hunts small insects and is harmless to people.
?Why is it called a tiger beetle?
Because it is a fast and fierce little hunter, like a tiger, but only for tiny insects.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Jundlandia lemniscata
- Named by
- LeConte, 1854
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cicindelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cicindelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Jundlandia lemniscata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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