#3243 · 🪲 beetles
Lesser Searcher Beetle
🇳🇱 Kleine poppenrover ·Calosoma inquisitor
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © gbohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © gbohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Calosoma inquisitor (the lesser searcher beetle or caterpillar-hunter ) is a species of ground beetle. The species is found in northern Africa, Europe (northward to southern Scandinavia) and East to Asia Minor, Iran and the Caucasus, with isolated populations in eastern Siberia and Japan.
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 137 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,564 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lesser Searcher Beetle
- Nederlands
- Kleine poppenrover
- scientific name
- Calosoma inquisitor
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- sightings in NL
- 137
- sightings in Europe
- 2,298
- sightings worldwide
- 2,564
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,054
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Carabidae
#3239 📷 10Granulated Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Kettingschallebijter
Carabus granulatus
👀 142 in NL
#3252 📷 10Rough Violet Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Blauwzwarte schallebijter
Carabus problematicus
👀 122 in NL
#3256 📷 10Bronze Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Tuinschallebijter
Carabus nemoralis
👀 113 in NL
#3286 📷 10European Gazelle Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone kortnek
Nebria brevicollis
👀 79 in NL
#3290 📷 10Strawberry Seed Beetle
🇳🇱 Roodpoothalmkruiper
Harpalus rufipes
👀 77 in NL
#3338 📷 10Akkersnelloper
Anchomenus dorsalis
👀 49 in NL
#3355 📷 10Gewone roodkruin
Anisodactylus binotatus
👀 46 in NL
#3364 📷 10Rain Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone streeploopkever
Pterostichus melanarius
👀 43 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 426166, Wikidata Q1303795, GBIF 5872954, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.