#3190 · 🪲 beetles

Mottled dingy-brown click beetle

🇳🇱 Muisgrijze kniptor ·Agrypnus murinus

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
2. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Evgenii Iaitskii · CC BY 4.0
4. © Vlad Proklov · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Anita Sprungk · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Nationaal Park De Biesbosch, Werkendam, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
7. 4328 Burgh-Haamstede, Nederland:© Maarten Sluijter · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 8148 Lemele, Nederland:© riadelarie · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Nijmegen, Marienboom, 6523 PB Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Agrypnus murinus is a species of click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae subfamily Agrypninae.

base stats

NL sightings 395iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 14,889iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 395 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #28 most seen of the beetles in NL.
14,889 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).