#3436 · 🪲 beetles
tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle
🇳🇱 Geelpoot-smalboktor ·Alosterna tabacicolor
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what is it?
Alosterna tabacicolor is a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae. It is found in the Palearctic Alosterna tabacicolor adults feed on flowers of Apiaceae and Aruncus dioicus in well wooded areas. The larvae live in the bark of Quercus robur and many other trees.
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 18 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,726 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles De Geer in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle
- Nederlands
- Geelpoot-smalboktor
- scientific name
- Alosterna tabacicolor
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cerambycidae
- sightings in NL
- 18
- sightings in Europe
- 4,529
- sightings worldwide
- 4,726
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,108
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Charles De Geer
relatives· Cerambycidae
#3173 📷 10Wasp Beetle
🇳🇱 Kleine Wespenbok
Clytus arietis
👀 763 in NL
#3183 📷 10Red Pine Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Rode smalbok
Stictoleptura rubra
👀 480 in NL
#3187 📷 10four-banded longhorn beetle
🇳🇱 Gevlekte smalboktor
Leptura quadrifasciata
👀 421 in NL
#3194 📷 10Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone Distelboktor
Agapanthia villosoviridescens
👀 345 in NL
#3200 📷 10common grammoptera
🇳🇱 Gewone bloesemboktor
Grammoptera ruficornis
👀 308 in NL
#3201 📷 10Spotted Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Geringelde smalboktor
Rutpela maculata
👀 307 in NL
#3221 📷 8Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Tweekleurige smalboktor
Stenurella melanura
👀 167 in NL
#3222 📷 10Fairy-ring Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Ingekeepte smalboktor
Pseudovadonia livida
👀 167 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130432, Wikidata Q1402284, GBIF 4458870, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.