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Corticeus pini

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Corticeus pini is a species in the family Tenebrionidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 3.38 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Switzerland.

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Quick facts about Corticeus pini

Weight
Not recorded
Length
3.38 mm
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

How big is Corticeus pini?

CORTICEUS PINI · LENGTH 3.38 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 3.38 mm, the recorded maximum length of the corticeus pini is about 0.2% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Corticeus pini 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 pini 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 Corticeus pini as introduced in 3 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Latviainvasive
  2. Sweden
  3. United Kingdom

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 Corticeus pini 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 pini classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyTenebrionidae
  6. genusCorticeus
  7. SpeciesCorticeus pini (Panzer, 1799)

Synonyms Hypophloeus ferrugineus, Hypophloeus leonhardi, Hypophloeus nocivus, Hypophloeus pini

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • kůrař jedlovýCzech

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Corticeus pini

Other species in the same genus Corticeus.

CompareCorticeus pini vs Corticeus bicolorCorticeus pini vs Corticeus bicoloroidesCorticeus pini vs Corticeus cavusCorticeus pini vs Corticeus cedrinus

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is Corticeus pini?

An adult Corticeus pini measures 3.38 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Corticeus pini live?

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

Is Corticeus pini an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags Corticeus pini as invasive in 1 country: Latvia. It lists it as introduced in 3 in all.

What kind of animal is Corticeus pini?

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

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{corticeus_pini_2026,
  title = {Corticeus pini (Corticeus pini)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/corticeus-pini},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}