Dark-footed harp ground beetle
Calathus fuscipes
The dark-footed harp ground beetle is a shiny black beetle that runs around on the ground. Its legs can be red or black. You can find it almost everywhere in Europe.
Lives in
Almost all of Europe
Length
1 to 1.4 cm (0.39 to 0.55 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting and is happy to run away from you.
What does it eat?
Like most ground beetles, it hunts small creatures on the ground.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 22 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)
Dark-footed harp ground beetle about 1.1 km/h (0.68 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 lives in nearly every country in Europe, but not in tiny ones like Monaco, San Marino or Vatican City.
2
Even though it is called dark-footed, its legs can be red as well as black.
3
Ground beetles like it are fast runners that hurry along the ground.
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Most asked questions about Dark-footed harp ground beetle
?How big is the dark-footed harp ground beetle?
It is 10 to 14 millimetres long.
?Where does the dark-footed harp ground beetle live?
Almost everywhere in Europe.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calathus fuscipes
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Calathus fuscipes (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 Christian Kahle. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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