Large Brown Click Beetle vs Globular Ant-loving Beetle

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute Large Brown Click Beetle Globular Ant-loving Beetle
Scientific Name Hemirhipus fascicularis Chennium bituberculatum
Order Coleoptera Coleoptera
Family Elateridae Staphylinidae
Size 30-50 mm 1.5-2.5 mm
Habitat Forests Woodlands
Diet Wood Feeders Predators
Regions Central and South America Mediterranean Europe, North Africa
Conservation Not Evaluated Least Concern

Large Brown Click Beetle

One of the largest click beetles in South America with a robust dark brown body. Their clicking mechanism can launch them considerable heights.

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Did You Know?

Their click mechanism can launch them up to 30 centimeters into the air to escape predators.

Globular Ant-loving Beetle

A small, rounded pselaphine rove beetle with a glossy chestnut-brown body and two prominent tubercles on the pronotum. It lives as a guest in the nests of various Tetramorium ant species.

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Did You Know?

The two tubercles on its thorax are actually glandular organs that produce secretions attractive to its host ants.