Rough-Skinned Diving Beetle vs Sumatran Flat-faced Longhorn

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute Rough-Skinned Diving Beetle Sumatran Flat-faced Longhorn
Scientific Name Dytiscus lapponicus Batocera numitor
Order Coleoptera Coleoptera
Family Dytiscidae Cerambycidae
Size 24-30 mm 50-90 mm
Habitat Mountains Farmland
Diet Omnivores Wood Feeders
Regions Northern Europe, Northern Asia Southeast Asia (Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Indonesia, Malaysia)
Conservation Least Concern Least Concern

Rough-Skinned Diving Beetle

A large diving beetle of northern and alpine regions across Europe and Asia. Both sexes have finely sculptured elytra, distinguishing it from the great diving beetle.

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Did You Know?

It is one of the few large predatory beetles adapted to survive the extreme cold of subarctic lakes.

Sumatran Flat-faced Longhorn

A very large longhorn beetle with grey-brown mottled elytra and exceptionally long antennae. The flat face and powerful mandibles help it strip bark from living trees.

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Did You Know?

It can produce loud squeaking sounds by rubbing a file on its thorax, a stridulation behavior used to startle predators.