Red and blue beetle
Dicranolaius bellulus
The red and blue beetle is a small, bright beetle from Australia. Its colours are red and shiny blue, which makes it easy to spot. It is a soft-winged flower beetle.
Lives in
Australia, in all the mainland states and territories
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
It belongs to the soft-winged flower beetles, which visit flowers and also catch tiny insects.
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)
Red and blue beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in every mainland state and territory of Australia.
2
A French scientist first drew it in 1830 but only wrote its description years later.
3
Its old scientific name was Malachius bellulus.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red and blue beetle
?Where does the red and blue beetle live?
All over mainland Australia.
?Is the red and blue beetle harmful?
No. It is a harmless little beetle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dicranolaius bellulus
- Named by
- Boisduval, 1835
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Melyridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Melyridae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Dicranolaius bellulus (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 tjeales Depicted place: Mount Coot Tha Rd, Toowong QLD 4066, Australia ( 27°28′34″S 152°58′39″E / 27.4760486°S 152.9773735°E / -27.4760486; 152.9773735 ). CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
Texas gray
Short-tailed aphideater
Double-striped scoparia moth
Bindweed seedeating bug
Small cross spider
Black plant bug