Bug FAQPrairie Long-lipped Tiger Beetle
Cicindela nebraskana · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Carabidae
The prairie long-lipped tiger beetle is 12 to 13 mm long and black in colour. It is found in North America.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
The beetle is uniformly black.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Adults measure between 12 and 13 mm in length.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It occurs in North America.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 12 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Washington, Colorado.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Carabidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicindela_nebraskana
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.