What is the smallest beetle?

Answer 1

Largest:

* Megasoma acteon. South America's male Acteon Beetle is one of the bulkiest of the abundant order of beetles, and it is often considered the "largest" in the world. The males can grow to be 3.5" long by 2" wide by 1.5" thick. * Deinacrida heteracantha. The heaviest insect on record was a pregnant Giant Weta, a rare and endangered New Zealand species that weighed in at 71 grams (just over 2 ounces). * Titanus giganteus. The extremely rare South American Longhorn Beetle checks in from time to time at lengths greater 6" long. In his 1874 work, Insects Abroad, the Reverend J.G. Wood reports on a 9" long Titanus specimen. Could it be that this legendary, but undocumented beetle was measured with antennae extended? Average Titanus specimens check in well over 5" on average. * Megasoma elephas, Goliathus goliatus, and Goliathus regius. These gargantuan scarabs, the Goliath beetles, have the greatest visible body mass. A Megasoma has been observed in captivity to consume an entire avocado in one day, but much of the comparative weight data gathered by entomologists comes from the dry weight of beetle exoskeletons. * Pharnacia kirbyi or Pharnacia serritypes. The female of the species of this Borneo stick-insect can be over 14" long, but she's thin as a rail.

Smallest:

The smallest insects are fairy flies, which are insects that parasitize other insects' eggs by laying their eggs inside them. Fairy flies are only 1/5 of a millimeter in length. Many beetles are less than one millimetre in length, and the North American Feather-winged Beetle Nanosella fungi, at 0.25mm, is a serious contender for the title of smallest insect in the world. Other insect orders which contain extremely small members are the Diptera (True Flies) and the Collembola (Springtails). The "feather-winged" beetles and the "battledore-wing fairy flies" are smaller than some species of protozoa (single cell creatures). Megaphragma caribea a hymenopteran parasite from Guadeloupe, measuring out at a huge 0.17 mm long is in contention for the smallest insect.

Answer 2

The smallest bird in the world is the Bee Hummingbird, Mellisuga helenae.

Related Information:

It is ~5 cm (~2 in) long and weighs ~1.8 g (~0.06 oz). Many believe that it is endemic to Cuba.

Answer 3

Credit for the smallest known living arthropod goes to a crustacean tantulocarid species, Tantulacus dieteri, a kind of parasite related to the barnacle; measuring in with a total body length of only 85 micrometres (0.0033 in)

Answer 4

The smallest beetle in the world is the featherwing beetle also known as the Ptiliidae. It is less than 1 millimeter long.

Answer 5

The smallest crustacean is the tantulocarid Stygotantulus stocki. Length wise, the tantulocarid Stygotantulus stocki is only 0.0037 inches long.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Fairy flies or wasps, which are sometimes smaller than a paramecium. They ditch the nuclei of their brain cells to allow them to be smaller and fit enough of them into their tiny head!

Answer 8

it is a fairy fly