#3279 · 🪲 beetles

Night-flying Dung Beetle

🇳🇱 Roodpootveldmestkever ·Acrossus rufipes

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Thorsten Usée · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. De Zump, Culemborg, Gelderland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Acrossus rufipes , the night-flying dung beetle , is a species of scarab beetle. It was first recorded by the zoologist Carl Linnaeus as Acrossus rufipes in his 10th edition of Systema Naturae . The species was more recently considered a member of the genus Aphodius , but is now again classified as Acrossus rufipes .

base stats

NL sightings 85iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,212iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).