#3299 · 🪲 beetles
Anaspis maculata
Anaspis maculata
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 9717 BB Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Nationaal Park De Biesbosch, Werkendam, North Brabant, NL
📍 Herkenbosch, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © URSchmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 9717 BB Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Nationaal Park De Biesbosch, Werkendam, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. Herkenbosch, Netherlands:© luukieluuk · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Anaspis maculata is a species of false flower beetle in the family Scraptiidae. It is found mainly in Europe.
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 72 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,846 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Anaspis maculata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Scraptiidae
- sightings in NL
- 72
- sightings in Europe
- 1,169
- sightings worldwide
- 1,846
- GBIF records in NL
- 249
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Scraptiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 496270, Wikidata Q2518914, GBIF 5878447, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.