Brown leather wing beetle
Pacificanthia consors
The brown leather wing beetle is an orange soldier beetle with soft brown wing covers. Its legs are reddish with black marks. It lives in California and spends most of its time in fallen leaves.
Lives in
North America, mostly California
Length
1.4 to 1.9 cm (0.55 to 0.75 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people.
What does it eat?
Both the adults and the larvae hunt small animals that live in the leaf litter.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 6.4 seconds
How big is Brown leather wing beetle compared to YOU?
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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)
Brown leather wing beetle about 0.56 km/h (0.35 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a soldier beetle, a group of beetles with soft, leathery wing covers.
2
It is most often seen flying in April and May.
3
Its babies hunt too, in the leaves on the ground.
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Most asked questions about Brown leather wing beetle
?What does the brown leather wing beetle eat?
It hunts small creatures living in the fallen leaves, and so do its larvae.
?Where does the brown leather wing beetle live?
In North America, mostly in California.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pacificanthia consors
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cantharidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cantharidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Brown leatherwing beetle
Where the facts come from
- Pacificanthia consors (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 (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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