#3478 · 🪲 beetles
Flat-headed Root-borer
Capnodis tenebrionis
🪲 Beetles 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Tulcea, Romania
📍 Περιφέρεια Βορείου Αιγαίου, Ελλάδα
📍 path from Filothei hill to Lato, Athens, Attica, Greece
📍 Konjsko, Hrvatska
📍 29200 Antequera, Málaga, Spain
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © vaggeliskoutsoukos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Tom Kwast · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © carlomazzotta · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Yannick Juvé · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Tulcea, Romania:© crowesome · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Περιφέρεια Βορείου Αιγαίου, Ελλάδα:© Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. path from Filothei hill to Lato, Athens, Attica, Greece:© Stergios Vasilis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Konjsko, Hrvatska:© Anton Gjeldum · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 29200 Antequera, Málaga, Spain:© Sonja Bouwman-Gringhuis · CC BY-NC 4.0
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,970 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Flat-headed Root-borer
- scientific name
- Capnodis tenebrionis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Buprestidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,471
- sightings worldwide
- 4,970
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
relatives· Buprestidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 336708, Wikidata Q1431461, GBIF 4432043. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.