Frog-legged leaf beetle
Sagra femorata
The frog-legged leaf beetle is a shiny metallic blue-green beetle. The males have huge, strong back legs that look like the legs of a frog. That is how it got its name.
Lives in
Forests of South and Southeast Asia and China
Length
2 cm (0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other leaf beetles, it eats plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 6.2 seconds
How big is Frog-legged leaf beetle compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Frog-legged leaf beetle about 0.58 km/h (0.36 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The males are much bigger than the females.
2
Males use their strong back legs to win fights against other males.
3
Its colour can change a lot, but it is usually shiny blue-green.
you asked
Most asked questions about Frog-legged leaf beetle
?Why is it called the frog-legged leaf beetle?
The males have big, strong back legs that look like frog legs.
?How big is the frog-legged leaf beetle?
It can be up to about 20 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sagra femorata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Sagra femorata (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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