Podabrus pruinosus, the downy leather-winged beetle, is a species of soldier beetle in the family Cantharidae.

They are common in spring and summer, when they feed on aphids.

[4] Larvae are 15-20 mm long, pink, with two dark lines on the thorax.

[4] These five subspecies belong to the species Podabrus pruinosus:

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