#3405 · 🪲 beetles
Lined Click Beetle
🇳🇱 Gestreepte kniptor ·Agriotes lineatus
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 Wassenaar, Nederland
📍 Nationaal Park Loonse en Drunense Duinen, Udenhout, Brabant, NL
📍 Groningen, NL
📍 2403 Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
📍 9989 Warffum, Nederland
📍 9747 AV Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Stadscentrum, 3431 Nieuwegein, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Thomas Barbin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © oldbilluk · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 4. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Nationaal Park Loonse en Drunense Duinen, Udenhout, Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 6. Groningen, NL:© Liam Mulder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 2403 Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands:© Elvira de Lange · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 9989 Warffum, Nederland:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 9747 AV Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Stadscentrum, 3431 Nieuwegein, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Agriotes lineatus is a species of beetle in the genus of Agriotes from the family of Elateridae. It is commonly known as the lined click beetle .
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 33 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,014 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1767 (259 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lined Click Beetle
- Nederlands
- Gestreepte kniptor
- scientific name
- Agriotes lineatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Elateridae
- sightings in NL
- 33
- sightings in Europe
- 655
- sightings worldwide
- 2,014
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,096
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1767
relatives· Elateridae
#3189 📷 10common brown click beetle
🇳🇱 Roodaarskniptor
Athous haemorrhoidalis
👀 404 in NL
#3190 📷 10Mottled dingy-brown click beetle
🇳🇱 Muisgrijze kniptor
Agrypnus murinus
👀 395 in NL
#3264 📷 7Zwarte speerkniptor
Ectinus aterrimus
👀 100 in NL
#3266 📷 10bordered click beetle
🇳🇱 Slanke kniptor
Denticollis linearis
👀 98 in NL
#3294 📷 10chequered click beetle
🇳🇱 Fluweelkniptor
Prosternon tessellatum
👀 74 in NL
#3298 📷 10margined click beetle
🇳🇱 Gerande kniptor
Dalopius marginatus
👀 72 in NL
#3301 📷 10Koperkleurige kniptor
Cidnopus aeruginosus
👀 71 in NL
#3308 📷 7Athous subfuscus
Athous subfuscus
👀 66 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 456217, Wikidata Q1268471, GBIF 1162127, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.