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Blaps lethifera

Status not recordedbeetles

Blaps lethifera is a species in the family Tenebrionidae, order Coleoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Switzerland.

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Quick facts about Blaps lethifera

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Blaps lethifera live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Blaps lethifera is listed for 1 country.

Switzerland
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Switzerland

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Blaps lethifera as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Latvia
  2. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Blaps lethifera endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Blaps lethifera classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyTenebrionidae
  6. genusBlaps
  7. SpeciesBlaps lethifera Marsham, 1802

Synonyms Blaps fatidica, Blaps pterotapha, Blaps sinuatocollis suecica

Other names and names in other languages (9)
  • Bred dødningebilleDanish
  • közönséges bűzbogárHungarian
  • DodentorDutch
  • Медляк широкогрудыйRussian
  • smrtník veštivýSlovak
  • klumpigt dödsbudSwedish
  • DødningebilleDanish
  • Stompe dodentorDutch
  • förväxlat dödsbudSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Blaps lethifera

Other species in the same genus Blaps.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Blaps lethifera live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Blaps lethifera for 1 country: Switzerland. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Blaps lethifera an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Blaps lethifera as introduced in 2 countries: Latvia and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Blaps lethifera?

Blaps lethifera (Blaps lethifera) belongs to the family Tenebrionidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Blaps lethifera (Blaps lethifera). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/blaps-lethifera

MLA

“Blaps lethifera (Blaps lethifera).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/blaps-lethifera.

BibTeX
@misc{blaps_lethifera_2026,
  title = {Blaps lethifera (Blaps lethifera)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/blaps-lethifera},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}