Spotted Brown Rove Beetle vs Common Tree Nymph

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute	Spotted Brown Rove Beetle	Common Tree Nymph
Scientific Name	Staphylinus fossor	Idea stolli
Order	Coleoptera	Lepidoptera
Family	Staphylinidae	Nymphalidae
Size	14-18 mm	130-170 mm wingspan
Habitat	Forests	Forests
Diet	Predators	Nectar Feeders
Regions	Europe, Central Asia	Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Borneo, Sulawesi, Philippines, Maluku)
Conservation	Least Concern	Least Concern

Spotted Brown Rove Beetle

A large, robust rove beetle with a brown body covered in patches of golden and dark setae. It is a ground-dwelling predator found in grasslands and forest edges across the Palearctic.

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Did You Know?

This beetle's powerful mandibles can crush snail shells, giving it access to a food source unavailable to most other rove beetles.

Common Tree Nymph

A very large butterfly with translucent white wings heavily veined and spotted in black. It flies with a slow, lazy, paper-kite fluttering motion through the forest understory.

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Did You Know?

Its slow, floating flight advertises its toxicity to predators - the caterpillars store alkaloids from their host plants that persist into adulthood.