Ringed harp ground beetle
Lebia analis
The ringed harp ground beetle is a tiny beetle from Canada, only about half a centimetre long. It is brown and black, with pale marks at the back end of its wing cases. Some of them even have an orange and dark purple colour.
Lives in
Canada
Length
4.5 to 5 mm (0.18 to 0.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a tiny beetle and cannot hurt you.
What does it eat?
It eats the leaves and flowers of different plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 5.7 seconds⚡moves 35 times its own body length every second
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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)
Ringed harp ground beetle about 0.63 km/h (0.39 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is only 4.5 to 5 millimetres long, about as big as a grain of rice.
2
The pale marks at the tip of its wing cases are split by a thin black line down the middle.
3
The shield behind its head has fine lines on its upper sides.
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Most asked questions about Ringed harp ground beetle
?How big is the ringed harp ground beetle?
Very small, only about 4.5 to 5 millimetres long.
?What does the ringed harp ground beetle eat?
The leaves and flowers of different plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lebia analis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lebia analis (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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