Oblique polypore fungus beetle
The oblique polypore fungus beetle is a dark, rounded beetle with one bright orange spot. The spot is a little triangle between the tops of its wing covers. It lives in old, rotting trees in North American forests.
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Fun facts
It hides under loose bark on decaying trees and in dry tree fungi.
It has only one close cousin in North America, and the orange spot is how you tell them apart.
It lives in many kinds of woods, from big old forests to pine forests and swamps.
Scientists think there are still plenty of them.
Most asked questions about Oblique polypore fungus beetle
?What does the oblique polypore fungus beetle eat?
Tree fungi, the hard mushrooms that grow like shelves on old trees.
?How big is it?
About 11 to 14 millimetres long, a bit longer than a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Penthe obliquata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Tetratomidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Tetratomidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Penthe obliquata (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 David McCorquodale. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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