Red-headed ground beetle
The red-headed ground beetle has dark wing cases and a bright orange head and neck shield. Its legs and feelers are pale orange too. It hides on the forest floor among fallen leaves.
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It is about 1 centimetre long, about as long as a pea is wide.
Its feelers have 11 parts each.
Under its body it is mostly orange too, with a darker belly.
You might find it under stones and logs, and also in wet lowland places.
Most asked questions about Red-headed ground beetle
?Where does the red-headed ground beetle live?
In North America, mostly in leafy forests in the northeastern United States, under leaves, stones and logs.
?How big is the red-headed ground beetle?
About 8.5 to 10 millimetres long, about 1 centimetre.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amphasia interstitialis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Amphasia interstitialis (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 Bernie Paquette. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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