Home›Insects›Where It LivesBrowse ByWhere It LivesWhere it lives names the country or region a species actually calls home. Wikipedia describes the giant panda as a species "endemic to China," found nowhere else in the wild. This dimension lets a visitor find every species native to the same part of the world.FactsWhere It LivesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonReproductive ModeWell-attestedOviparous (Egg-Laying) 1Where It LivesFilter Results198 entriesCommon GroupAllBees, Wasps And Ants (Hymenoptera) (82)Beetles (Coleoptera) (95)Butterflies And Moths (Lepidoptera) (83)Cockroaches And Termites (Blattodea) (30)Dragonflies And Damselflies (Odonata) (34)Fleas And Lice (12)Flies (Diptera) (136)Grasshoppers And Crickets (Orthoptera) (100)Lacewings, Antlions And Allies (Neuroptera And Kin) (7)Mantises (Mantodea) (26)Other Insects (53)True Bugs (Hemiptera) (39)Everyday GroupAllBees, Wasps And Ants (Hymenoptera) (82)Beetles (Coleoptera) (95)Butterflies And Moths (Lepidoptera) (83)Cockroaches And Termites (Blattodea) (30)Dragonflies And Damselflies (Odonata) (34)Fleas And Lice (12)Flies (Diptera) (136)Grasshoppers And Crickets (Orthoptera) (100)Lacewings, Antlions And Allies (Neuroptera And Kin) (7)Mantises (Mantodea) (26)Other Insects (53)True Bugs (Hemiptera) (39)HabitatAllAlpine (41)Bog (49)Boreal Forest (41)Chaparral (94)Desert (94)Fen (8)Freshwater (11)Grassland (102)Ice Sheet (7)Lake (24)Mangrove Forest (14)Riparian Zone (53)River (30)Savanna (72)Steppe (7)Temperate Coniferous Forest (4)Temperate Forest (64)Tropical Rainforest (61)Tundra (33)Wetlands (71)Xeric Shrubland (10)Conservation StatusAllData Deficient (36)Endangered (12)Extinct (12)Least Concern (73)Near Threatened (5)Not Evaluated (183)DietAllCarnivore (43)Detritivore or Scavenger (50)Frugivore (11)Herbivore (150)Insectivore (36)Omnivore (105)Parasitic (25)System (Realm)AllFreshwater (81)Marine (66)Terrestrial (197)Terrestrial and Freshwater (3)Living or ExtinctAllYes (198)ThreatsAllInvasive and Other Problematic Species, Genes and Diseases (33)Pollution (5)Relationship to PeopleAllAgricultural or Structural Pest (158)Disease Vector (116)Domesticated (37)Eaten or Drunk by People (6)Ecotourism and Research (18)Farmed or Commercially Raised (34)Hunted or Fished (3)Invasive or Introduced Species (97)Kept as Pets (29)Natural Pest Control (7)No Significant Interaction with Humans (35)Pollinator (75)Used in Traditional Medicine (11)Venomous or Dangerous to Humans (7)CITES AppendixAllAppendix II (1)Not Listed (196)NatureServe RankAllG2 Imperiled (2)G4 Apparently Secure (30)G5 Secure (87)GNR Unranked (149)EcosystemAllAmazon Rainforest (6)Arctic Tundra (4)Borneo Rainforest (1)Caspian Sea (11)Cerrado (2)Chihuahuan Desert (4)Fynbos (28)Great Plains (2)Heath (7)Kruger National Park (5)Mojave Desert (7)Moorland (4)Okavango Delta (1)Pampas (3)Pantanal (26)Sahara Desert (41)Sahel (41)Serengeti (1)TaxonomyAllAnopheles (6)Apidae (2)Apis (7)Blattodea (30)Bombus (7)Buprestidae (6)Carabidae (5)Carabus (30)Cerambycidae (64)Chrysomelidae (47)Coccinellidae (3)Coleoptera (51)Crambidae (2)Culicidae (66)Curculionidae (9)Danaus (10)Dermaptera (8)Dermestidae (5)Diptera (115)Dytiscidae (4)Erebidae (22)Euphydryas (1)Formicidae (3)Geometridae (5)Grylloblattodea (7)Heliconius (3)Hemiptera (20)Hymenoptera (78)Insecta (50)Lepidoptera (39)Lycaenidae (10)Mantodea (26)Megaloptera (6)Neuroptera (5)Nitidulidae (9)Noctuidae (17)Nymphalidae (46)Odonata (34)Orthoptera (100)Papilionidae (4)Phasmatodea (1)Pieridae (45)Plecoptera (5)Saturniidae (5)Scarabaeidae (13)Sphingidae (9)Tenebrionidae (13)Thysanoptera (32)Tortricidae (10)Trichoptera (4)Zygaenidae (1)Area (sq km)All26.26 (1)160.5 (1)181.43 (1)261 (1)298 (1)316 (1)2040 (1)2235 (1)2586.4 (1)2831 (1)10,452 (1)10,991 (1)11,300 (1)12,189 (1)13,880 (1)13,883 (1)15,007 (1)17,818 (1)18,274 (1)20,272 (1)21,041 (1)22,072 (1)22,966 (1)23,200 (1)25,436 (1)27,700 (1)27,834 (1)28,050 (1)28,748 (1)28,896 (1)29,743 (1)30,689 (1)100,472 (1)103,125 (1)108,889 (1)110,860 (1)110,993.6 (1)111,369 (1)112,492 (1)114,763 (1)118,484 (1)120,000 (1)130,375 (1)132,049 (1)143,100 (1)147,181 (1)148,460 (1)163,610 (1)176,215 (1)180,000 (1)181,035 (1)185,180 (1)196,722 (1)200,105 (1)207,600 (1)214,969 (1)236,800 (1)238,397 (1)239,567 (1)242,500 (1)245,857 (1)263,310 (1)267,668 (1)272,000 (1)274,223 (1)283,561 (1)302,069 (1)312,696 (1)315,331 (1)322,462 (1)1,030,000 (1)1,098,581 (1)1,104,300 (1)1,141,748 (1)1,220,813 (1)1,241,238 (1)1,246,700 (1)1,267,000 (1)1,280,000 (1)1,285,216 (1)1,564,116 (1)1,648,195 (1)1,759,541 (1)1,886,068 (1)1,904,569 (1)1,972,550 (1)2,149,690 (1)2,345,409 (1)2,381,741 (1)2,650,670 (1)2,724,910 (1)2,780,085 (1)7,688,287 (2)10,186,000 (1)11,840,000 (1)13,100,000 (1)17,075,400 (1)17,840,000 (1)24,709,000 (1)30,370,000 (1)Showing the 100 most common of 196 options.Country CountAll1 (1)12 (1)23 (1)44 (1)49 (1)54 (1)Government TypeAllAbsolute Monarchy (3)Constitutional Monarchy (32)One-Party (4)Republic (122)Highest Elevation (m)All2228 (1)5642 (1)5895 (1)6190 (1)6967 (1)8849 (1)Income GroupAllHigh (59)Low (21)Lower-Middle (41)Upper-Middle (57)Independence or Founding YearAll843 (1)1000 (1)1139 (1)1492 (1)1523 (1)1768 (1)1769 (1)1776 (1)1795 (1)1801 (1)1804 (1)1806 (1)1810 (1)1811 (2)1816 (1)1818 (1)1820 (1)1821 (7)1822 (1)1825 (2)1830 (1)1832 (1)1839 (1)1844 (1)1847 (1)1848 (1)1861 (1)1867 (1)1877 (1)1901 (1)1902 (1)1903 (1)1905 (1)1907 (1)1908 (1)1910 (1)1912 (2)1917 (1)1918 (5)1919 (1)1921 (1)1922 (2)1923 (1)1932 (2)1943 (1)1944 (1)1945 (3)1946 (3)1947 (4)1948 (3)1949 (2)1951 (1)1953 (2)1956 (3)1957 (2)1958 (1)1960 (18)1961 (3)1962 (5)1963 (1)1964 (2)1965 (3)1966 (3)1968 (2)1970 (3)1971 (3)1973 (1)1974 (2)1975 (6)1976 (2)1977 (1)1978 (3)1979 (3)1980 (2)1981 (2)1983 (1)1984 (1)1986 (2)1988 (1)1990 (2)1991 (14)1992 (1)1993 (4)1995 (1)2006 (2)LandlockedAllNo (141)Yes (35)PopulationAll10,643 (1)100,179 (1)106,365 (1)109,296 (1)114,621 (1)121,355 (1)184,100 (1)205,557 (1)281,998 (1)335,908 (1)1,025,200 (1)1,066,809 (1)1,235,260 (1)1,341,737 (1)1,362,954 (1)1,382,000 (1)1,512,779 (1)1,588,670 (1)1,795,834 (1)1,836,713 (1)1,842,226 (1)2,080,000 (1)2,135,107 (1)2,335,930 (1)2,359,609 (1)2,365,645 (1)2,422,712 (1)2,647,400 (1)2,824,913 (1)2,897,430 (1)3,022,401 (1)3,100,100 (1)10,147,200 (1)10,185,363 (1)10,186,738 (1)10,353,296 (1)10,610,485 (1)10,915,839 (1)10,978,599 (1)11,027,129 (1)11,365,333 (1)11,424,031 (1)11,484,805 (1)11,532,151 (1)11,867,634 (1)11,906,096 (1)11,972,169 (1)14,151,540 (1)15,170,420 (1)16,300,000 (1)17,166,852 (1)17,483,326 (1)17,521,167 (1)17,638,801 (1)18,130,208 (1)18,636,532 (1)18,847,519 (1)19,043,151 (1)19,629,588 (1)19,655,000 (1)20,031,602 (1)20,547,909 (1)21,756,000 (1)22,224,282 (1)22,489,126 (1)23,299,132 (1)24,745,000 (1)26,657,437 (1)27,801,023 (2)28,814,878 (1)30,987,821 (1)31,122,387 (1)31,500,000 (1)31,800,000 (1)31,964,956 (1)32,283,000 (1)32,684,503 (1)33,702,731 (1)103,439,000 (1)109,139,000 (1)114,000,000 (1)116,452,000 (1)122,587,000 (1)134,000,000 (1)138,000,000 (1)142,557,000 (1)169,828,911 (1)190,000,000 (1)213,421,037 (1)241,499,431 (1)242,747,130 (1)270,500,000 (1)288,315,089 (1)313,450,000 (1)340,587,000 (1)1,210,854,977 (1)1,393,676,444 (1)1,407,698,000 (1)1,600,000,000 (1)2,040,000,000 (1)Showing the 100 most common of 196 options.Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 48SamoaWhere It Lives3 entriesSaudi ArabiaWhere It Lives4 entriesSenegalWhere It Lives3 entriesSerbiaWhere It Lives8 entriesSeychellesWhere It Lives2 entriesSiberiaWhere It Lives2 entriesSierra LeoneWhere It Lives2 entriesSingaporeWhere It Lives2 entriesSlovakiaWhere It Lives7 entriesSloveniaWhere It Lives5 entriesSolomon IslandsWhere It Lives1 entrySomaliaWhere It Lives1 entrySouth AfricaWhere It Lives10 entriesSouth AmericaWhere It Lives25 entriesSouth AsiaWhere It Lives19 entriesSouth KoreaWhere It Lives3 entriesSoutheast AsiaWhere It Lives2 entriesSouthern AfricaWhere It Lives2 entriesSpainWhere It Lives26 entriesSri LankaWhere It Lives3 entriesSudanWhere It Lives2 entriesSwedenWhere It Lives75 entriesSwitzerlandWhere It Lives29 entriesSyriaWhere It Lives1 entryTaiwanWhere It Lives5 entriesTajikistanWhere It Lives1 entryTanzaniaWhere It Lives2 entriesThailandWhere It Lives5 entriesTimor-LesteWhere It Lives2 entriesTogoWhere It Lives2 entriesTongaWhere It Lives2 entriesTrinidad and TobagoWhere It Lives5 entriesTunisiaWhere It Lives5 entriesTurkeyWhere It Lives7 entriesTurkmenistanWhere It Lives1 entryTuvaluWhere It Lives2 entriesUkraineWhere It Lives6 entriesUnited Arab EmiratesWhere It Lives6 entriesUnited KingdomWhere It Lives23 entriesUnited StatesWhere It Lives88 entriesUruguayWhere It Lives3 entriesVanuatuWhere It Lives2 entriesVenezuelaWhere It Lives8 entriesVietnamWhere It Lives6 entriesWestern AsiaWhere It Lives2 entriesWestern SaharaWhere It Lives1 entryYemenWhere It Lives5 entriesZimbabweWhere It Lives2 entriesShowing 151 to 198 of 198, page 4 of 4.← Previous1234Sources1. 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