Velvety bark beetle
Penthe pimelia
The velvety bark beetle is a dark beetle from North America. It is dark all over, from head to tail. It belongs to a group of beetles that live with fungi on trees.
Lives in
North America, in woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It belongs to the polypore fungus beetles, which feed on the hard bracket fungi that grow on trees.
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)
Velvety bark beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Even the little triangle between its wing covers is dark.
2
Its only cousin of the same kind in North America has a bright orange triangle there. That is how you tell them apart.
3
Its group is named after polypores, the shelf-like fungi that grow on tree trunks.
you asked
Most asked questions about Velvety bark beetle
?Is the velvety bark beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?How can you tell the velvety bark beetle from its cousin?
Look at the little triangle between the wing covers. On this beetle it is dark, on its cousin it is bright orange.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Penthe pimelia
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Tetratomidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Tetratomidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Penthe pimelia (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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