Cliff tiger beetle
The cliff tiger beetle is a small tiger beetle from Europe. Tiger beetles are fast hunters that dash after their prey on long legs. It was one of the beetles named by the famous scientist Carl Linnaeus.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
There are four subspecies, slightly different kinds that live in different places.
It lives in most of Europe, but not in Greece, Corsica, Sicily or Turkey.
Scientists are still not sure whether it lives in Poland.
Carl Linnaeus first named it in 1758 under a different scientific name.
Most asked questions about Cliff tiger beetle
?Where does the cliff tiger beetle live?
In most of Europe, from Scandinavia down to the Balkans, and in parts of Russia.
?Is the cliff tiger beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small beetle that hunts tiny insects and is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cylindera germanica
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cylindera germanica (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 Siga. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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