Tricolor soldier beetle
The tricolor soldier beetle is a flat beetle from Australia wearing three colours. Its head is black, the part behind the head is red-orange, and its wing covers are a shiny olive green. Under the wing covers hides a yellow-orange tummy.
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Fun facts
Its body can be anything from 6 to 16 millimetres long.
Its body is flat, not round like a ladybird.
Its wing covers have a metal-like shine.
Most asked questions about Tricolor soldier beetle
?Where does the tricolor soldier beetle live?
In eastern Australia, South Australia and the southwest corner of Western Australia.
?Why is it called tricolor?
Tricolor means three colours. It has a black head, a red-orange part behind the head and olive-green wing covers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chauliognathus tricolor
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cantharidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cantharidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Chauliognathus tricolor (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 patrickkavanagh. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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