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Dinaraea arcana

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Dinaraea arcana is a species in the family Staphylinidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 4.66 mm in length.

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Quick facts about Dinaraea arcana

Weight
Not recorded
Length
4.66 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
Not recorded

How big is Dinaraea arcana?

DINARAEA ARCANA · LENGTH 4.66 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 4.66 mm, the recorded maximum length of the dinaraea arcana is about 0.3% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Dinaraea arcana live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Dinaraea arcana as introduced in 1 country.

  1. 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 Dinaraea arcana 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 Dinaraea arcana classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyStaphylinidae
  6. genusDinaraea
  7. SpeciesDinaraea arcana (Erichson, 1839)

Synonyms Atheta arcana, Atheta brevipennis, Dinaraea distincta, Homalota arcana, Homalota brevipennis

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Dinaraea arcana

Other species in the same genus Dinaraea.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is Dinaraea arcana?

An adult Dinaraea arcana measures 4.66 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is Dinaraea arcana an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Dinaraea arcana as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Dinaraea arcana?

Dinaraea arcana (Dinaraea arcana) belongs to the family Staphylinidae 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). Dinaraea arcana (Dinaraea arcana). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dinaraea-arcana

MLA

“Dinaraea arcana (Dinaraea arcana).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/dinaraea-arcana.

BibTeX
@misc{dinaraea_arcana_2026,
  title = {Dinaraea arcana (Dinaraea arcana)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dinaraea-arcana},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}