Diving beetle

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Diving beetle
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Real-world info
Name: Dytiscus marginalis Family: Dytiscidae - Predaceous Diving Beetles
Main appearances
DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue WW CF NL NH
Other appearances
Film HHD aF PC
Names in other languages  ゲンゴロウ  龙虱  Dytique  Escarabajo nadador  Ditisco  Плавунец  물방개  龍蝨  Dytique  Escarabajo nadador  Schwimmkäfer  Waterroofkever

The diving beetle is a bug in the Animal Crossing series. It first appeared in Doubutsu no Mori e+ and have appeared in all subsequent games except Animal Crossing: Wild World. They appear on the surface of bodies of freshwater, occasionally diving under. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it can be caught from late spring to early fall.

Catch details

In Doubutsu no Mori e+

#42

"ゲンゴロウを つかまえた! おしりに あぶくが!?"
Translation: "I caught a diving beetle! Its bottom is bubbling!?"

DnM / iQue

DnM+ / AC

DnMe+

Time of year	May – Sep
Time of day	All day
Location	On freshwater
Weather	Unknown
Selling price	250 Bells
Furniture size

In City Folk

#29

"I caught a diving beetle! I give it a perfect 10!"

Description	These are said to have short but strong pincers. Ouch!
Time of year	May – Sep
Time of day	8 AM – 5 PM
Peak times	N/A
Location	On rivers and ponds
Bug size	38 mm
Rarity	Very uncommon
Selling price	800 Bells
Furniture size

In New Leaf

#32

"I caught a diving beetle! It's like I have sonar or something!"

Time of year	May – Sep
Time of day	8 AM – 5 PM
Peak times	N/A
Location	On rivers and ponds
Size	38 mm
Rarity	Uncommon
Selling price	800 Bells
Furniture size

In New Horizons

#39

"I caught a diving beetle! Now I'm making a splash!"

Time of year	North: May – Sep South: Nov – Mar
Time of day	8 AM – 7 PM
Location	On rivers and ponds
Weather	Any weather
Spawn requirement	Appears from the start of the game
Selling prices	Nook's Cranny:  800 Bells  Flick:  1,200 Bells
Furniture size

Donating to the museum

In City Folk

If the player donates the diving beetle to the museum, Blathers will make a comment on it.

"While they're marginally less odious as adults...dive beetles are horrific in their larval stage! These wretched youths are twice the size of the adults and wield a large poison barb. Foul villainy! Then again, I suppose the adults aren't much better. They're both completely objectionable, really..."

It can be found in the bottom-left hand enclosure in the insect exhibition, in the small pond.

In New Leaf

Upon being donated, the beetle can be found in the first room of the bug exhibit swimming in the pond just outside the butterfly house.

"Diving beetles swim using thick, hairy hind legs and clean the water by eating dead insects. They store a supply of air under their wings to breathe underwater and surface to replenish as needed. When they're caught by predators, they release a foul-smelling bluish fluid from their heads in defense."

In New Horizons

"Ah, the dastardly diving beetle! Famous for its distinctive round shape...and its voracious appetite. This powerful predator uses thick back legs covered in hairs to paddle after its prey. And it uses suction cups on its front legs to grip its quarry for good. My own legs have gone weak thinking about it..."

When donated, the diving beetle can be found swimming in the southwestern water tank of the bug exhibit. It shares this habitat with the pondskater, giant water bug, and some donated fish.

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  Animal Crossing: City Folk

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  Animal Crossing: New Leaf

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  Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Real-world information

Adult beetles have streamlined, oval, or football-shaped flattened bodies that are usually 12-25 millimeters (1/8-1 inch) long. Most species are brown to black but some have distinctive patterns of spots, lines, or mottling on the wing covers. They have elongate hairlike antennae. Larvae are not frequently seen and have a long thorax and long legs. The head bears conspicuous large sickle-shaped mandibles without teeth.

Predaceous diving beetles are easily confused with water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). The latter surface for air head first and have a ridge or keel on the underside that runs down the thorax and extends into a point.

Names in other languages

	ゲンゴロウ gengorō	Diving beetle (etymology unknown)
	물방개 mulbanggae	Diving beetle
	龙虱 lóngshī	Diving beetle (lit. "dragon louse")
	龍蝨 Unknown
	Плавунец Plavunets	Diving beetle
	Waterroofkever	"Water predator Beetle"
	Schwimmkäfer	"Swimming beetle"
	Escarabajo Nadador	"Swimming beetle"
	Dytique	From family name Dysticidae
	Ditisco	From family name Dysticidae