Field tiger beetle
Cicindela campestris Linnaeus, 1758
Status not recordedbeetles
The field tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris) is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 1.5 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 39 countries, including Albania, Algeria and Austria.
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Quick facts about the field tiger beetle
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 1.05 cm – 1.5 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- grasslandsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 39 countriessrc for Countries on record
How big is the field tiger beetle?
Where does the field tiger beetle 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.
The field tiger beetle is listed for 39 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
- Albania
- Algeria
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malta
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: CarabCat (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Is the field tiger beetle 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 the field tiger beetle classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderColeoptera
- familyCarabidae
- genusCicindela
- SpeciesCicindela campestris Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms Buprestis campestris
Other names and names in other languages (17)
- Common tiger beetleEnglish
- Green tiger beetleEnglish
- cicindelaAsturian
- svižník polníCzech
- MarkspringerDanish
- Almindelig markspringerDanish
- Grøn sandspringerDanish
- MarksandspringerDanish
- FeldsandläuferGerman
- kenttäkiitäjäinenFinnish
- cicindèle champêtreFrench
- Cicindèle des champsFrench
- grønn sandjegerNorwegian Bokmål
- AkkerzandloperDutch
- Groene zandkeverDutch
- Groene zandloopkeverDutch
- grön sandjägareSwedish
Relatives of the field tiger beetle
Other species in the same genus Cicindela.
Northern dune tiger beetle
Cicindela hybrida
Wood tiger beetle
Cicindela sylvatica
Columbia river tiger beetle
Cicindela columbica
Oregon tiger beetle
Cicindela oregona
Six spotted tiger beetle
Cicindela sexguttata
Twelve-spotted tiger beetle
Cicindela duodecimguttata
CompareField tiger beetle vs Northern dune tiger beetleField tiger beetle vs Wood tiger beetleField tiger beetle vs Columbia river tiger beetleField tiger beetle vs Oregon tiger beetle
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the field tiger beetle?
An adult field tiger beetle measures 1.05 cm – 1.5 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the field tiger beetle live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the field tiger beetle for 39 countries, including Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan and Belarus. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the field tiger beetle?
The field tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris) belongs to the family Carabidae in the order Coleoptera.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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