Horned dor beetle
The horned dor beetle is a small, round, shiny black beetle. The male has a thin horn on his head that he can move. It lives such a hidden life that scientists still know very little about it.
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Fun facts
It is the only one of its group of beetles that lives in Europe.
Besides the big horn on his head, the male has two smaller horns on the sides of his neck shield.
The female has no horn. She has a small ridge with two little bumps instead.
The ends of its feelers are made of small leaves that it can open and close.
It was first described in 1772, and since then it has had many different scientific names.
Most asked questions about Horned dor beetle
?How big is the horned dor beetle?
About 7 to 10 millimetres long.
?Do female horned dor beetles have horns?
No. Only males have the movable head horn. Females have a small ridge with two bumps.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Odonteus armiger
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1772
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Bolboceratidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Bolboceratidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Odonteus armiger (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 Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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