#3308 · 🪲 beetles
Athous subfuscus
Athous subfuscus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Athous subfuscus is a species of beetles in the family Elateridae and the genus Athous .
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 66 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,166 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764 (262 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Athous subfuscus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Elateridae
- sightings in NL
- 66
- sightings in Europe
- 685
- sightings worldwide
- 2,166
- GBIF records in NL
- 366
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1764 by Otto Friedrich Müller
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
#3311 📷 10Polderkniptor
Hemicrepidius niger
👀 65 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 494566, Wikidata Q2771495, GBIF 4428521, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.