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Corticeus bicolor

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Corticeus bicolor is a species in the family Tenebrionidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 3.73 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Switzerland.

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Quick facts about Corticeus bicolor

Weight
Not recorded
Length
3.73 mm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivore
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

How big is Corticeus bicolor?

CORTICEUS BICOLOR · LENGTH 3.73 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 3.73 mm, the recorded maximum length of the corticeus bicolor is about 0.2% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Corticeus bicolor 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.

Corticeus bicolor is listed for 1 country.

Switzerland
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Switzerland

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Corticeus bicolor 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 Corticeus bicolor classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyTenebrionidae
  6. genusCorticeus
  7. SpeciesCorticeus bicolor (A. G. Olivier, 1790)

Synonyms Hypophloeus bicolor, Ips bicolor

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • kůrař dvojbarvýCzech
  • kirjohukkaFinnish
  • Korosz dwubarwnyPolish
  • tvåfärgad barksvartbaggeSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Corticeus bicolor

Other species in the same genus Corticeus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is Corticeus bicolor?

An adult Corticeus bicolor measures 3.73 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Corticeus bicolor live?

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

What kind of animal is Corticeus bicolor?

Corticeus bicolor (Corticeus bicolor) 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). Corticeus bicolor (Corticeus bicolor). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/corticeus-bicolor

MLA

“Corticeus bicolor (Corticeus bicolor).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/corticeus-bicolor.

BibTeX
@misc{corticeus_bicolor_2026,
  title = {Corticeus bicolor (Corticeus bicolor)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/corticeus-bicolor},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}