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Great Diving Beetle

Dytiscus marginalis

Classification

Class
Insecta

The great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) is an aquatic diving beetle native to Europe and northern Asia, and in the UK is common in Wales, much of England and southern Scotland but less common on chalk and in the far north. The great diving beetle, true to its name, is a rather large insect. The larvae can grow up to 60 millimetres (2.

Distribution

Dick Belgers · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Germany · 320Luxembourg · 190Belgium · 185United Kingdom · 171Netherlands · 113FranceItalySpainSwitzerland