#3169 · 🪲 beetles
Woodland Dor Beetle
🇳🇱 Bosmestkever ·Anoplotrupes stercorosus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Rheden, Netherlands
📍 Nationaal Park Veluwezoom, Rheden, Gelderland, NL
📍 Bladel, Brabant, NL
📍 Noord-Brabant, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ryszard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Björn S... · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Ina Siebert · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © stanze · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © ceffx · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Rheden, Netherlands:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Nationaal Park Veluwezoom, Rheden, Gelderland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Bladel, Brabant, NL:© Quirijn V · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Noord-Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Anoplotrupes stercorosus , common name dor beetle , is a species of earth-boring dung beetles belonging to the family Geotrupidae subfamily Geotrupinae.
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 942 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #7 most seen of the beetles in NL.
- 58,076 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba in 1791 (235 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Woodland Dor Beetle
- Nederlands
- Bosmestkever
- scientific name
- Anoplotrupes stercorosus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Geotrupidae
- sightings in NL
- 942
- sightings in Europe
- 50,071
- sightings worldwide
- 58,076
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,732
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1791 by Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba
relatives· Geotrupidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 125655, Wikidata Q1314196, GBIF 1071240, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.