Chevrolat's dytiscid
Copelatus chevrolati
Chevrolat's dytiscid is a small diving beetle. It is reddish brown and lives in water, where it swims with its flat, oar-like back legs. You can find it in much of the United States.
Lives in
Southern and central United States and southern Ontario in Canada
Length
5.3 to 6.7 mm (0.21 to 0.26 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a small water beetle that does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like other diving beetles, it hunts small water animals.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🛁could swim the length of a bathtub in 8.5 seconds⚡moves 35 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Chevrolat's dytiscid about 0.85 km/h (0.53 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It comes in two kinds: one in the east and one in the west of its range.
2
Its colour goes from pale reddish brown to darker reddish brown.
3
Scientists tell it apart from its relatives by counting the thin lines on its wing cases. It has 8 or 9.
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Most asked questions about Chevrolat's dytiscid
?How big is Chevrolat's dytiscid?
About 5 to 7 millimetres long.
?Where does Chevrolat's dytiscid live?
In the southern and central United States, with a few found in southern Ontario in Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Copelatus chevrolati
- Named by
- Aubé, 1838
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Dytiscidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Dytiscidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Copelatus chevrolati (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 Fredlyfish4. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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