Woodland Dor Beetle

Illustrated: Adult woodland dor beetle, short oval highly convex black body with metallic blue reflections. Broad rounded pronotum, longitudinally grooved closed elytra, blue-black stout legs with digging teeth on front tibiae, two short clubbed antennae. Six legs.

Anoplotrupes stercorosus

All languages

English: Woodland Dor Beetle
Norwegian: skogtordivel
Japanese: Anoplotrupes stercorosus — Scientific name; Japanese name under review
Korean: Anoplotrupes stercorosus — Scientific name; Korean name under review
Spanish: Escarabajo Pelotero Zumbador
French: Géotrupe des bois
German: Waldmistkäfer

Beta edition. Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.

Reference sources

iNaturalist — draft common-name source
Natural-history identification source