Four-spotted fungus beetle
The four-spotted fungus beetle is a small, shiny beetle with a black and pale orange pattern. Just behind its head it has four black spots in a row. It belongs to the pleasing fungus beetles, a family of beetles that live on mushrooms.
How big is it?
How long is it?
How big is Four-spotted fungus beetle compared to YOU?
Just maths in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Males can squeak by wiggling their heads, which rubs a tiny file against their shell.
Its shell starts out dull and gets shinier and shinier as it wears down in old age.
It lives in a huge area, from southern Canada all the way to Argentina.
Its black markings and orange colour can look a little different from place to place.
Most asked questions about Four-spotted fungus beetle
?Is the four-spotted fungus beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small harmless beetle.
?How big is the four-spotted fungus beetle?
It is about 5 to 9 millimetres long, around the size of a fingernail on your little finger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ischyrus quadripunctatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Erotylidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Erotylidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Four-spotted pleasing fungus beetle
Where the facts come from
- Ischyrus quadripunctatus (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 Christina Butler from Georgia, United States. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
Stag beetle
Hercules beetle
Common glow-worm
Goliath beetle
Cockchafer
Mealworm beetle
Chinese peacock swallowtail
Spotted apatelodes moth
Modest sphinx
Black shield hornet
Kerry slug
Pine ladybird.jpg){kind=link}