Armored Cannon Beetle

The Armored Cannon Beetle is a large beetle with a black shell of armor and launches rolling boulders at Pikmin. Throwing a Pikmin into its blowhole when it inhales will temporarily make it overheat, forcing it to vent by opening its wings and inadvertently exposing itself to attack.

Pikmin 3 (Flish addition)
Armored Cannon Beetles are found in Pikmin 3 (Flish Edition), although the larvae are absent. They're signifigantly easier to defeat and can often be found as a regular enemy. Their seed worth is also only 20 now.

Pikmin: Ultimate Doom
The Armored Cannon Beetle is a miniboss in Pikmin: Ultimate Doom, but its larva is absent. The Armored Cannon Beetle is much stronger in Pikmin: Ultimate Doom. It will stomp on the ground, stunning all Pikmin within the radius of the tremor. It quickly shoots out a boulder to crush stunned Pikmin. It can also go into a rampage mode and run around. If it brushes up against a Pikmin while in rampage mode, that Pikmin begins to panic. Then it shoots its boulders at the panicking Pikmin.

Locations

 * Crystal Falls
 * Rust Factory

Pikmin: Dimensional Breach
The Armored Cannon Beetle and its larvae reappear in Dimensional Breach. The Armored Cannon Beetle retains its stomp and rampage attacks from Ultimate Doom, but otherwise it remains unchanged from its appearance in the original Pikmin. A single Armored Cannon Beetle guards the Green Onion in the Tundra of Repose.