Armored Flint Beetle

The Armored Flint Beetle is a species of resilient flint beetle that runs through Pikmin and leaders, knocking them down or away.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin 3: The Progg Wars
The Armored Flint Beetle is a flint beetle in Pikmin 3: The Progg Wars that serves Louie. It is an Iridescent Flint Beetle with tough armor, and charges at Pikmin, knocking them away and depetaling them. It may also grab Pikmin and burrow underground with them, resulting in their deaths. Repeatedly throw Pikmin onto it until it disappears. Leaders can not harm it.

In Pikmin IV
The Armored Flint Beetle appears in Pikmin IV. It sports a tough, clear crystal exoskeleton that can be broken using Rock Pikmin. Its main body is silver and casts a glare when viewed from certain angles. It has shiny red legs and sports a pair of thick blue antennae, the ends of which are green and glow in the dark. It charges at Pikmin to knock down and depetal them. Upon ramming into a wall, an Armored Flint Beetle can randomly drop nectar, pellets of any color, or a dose of ultra-spicy spray or ultra-bitter spray or their respective berries. If its crystal armor is broken and a Pikmin is thrown on top of it, it drops up to three of one of the aforementioned rewards at once before disappearing.