#3415 · 🪲 beetles
Byturus ochraceus
Byturus ochraceus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Byturus ochraceus is a species of beetle in the fruitworm family Byturidae.
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 31 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,750 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Byturus ochraceus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Byturidae
- sightings in NL
- 31
- sightings in Europe
- 1,043
- sightings worldwide
- 5,750
- GBIF records in NL
- 119
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130843, Wikidata Q2293261, GBIF 4452084, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.