#3450 · 🪲 beetles
Rasterschallebijter
Carabus cancellatus
📍 Gemeinde Gitschtal, Gitschtal, Österreich
📍 Schutterwald, Deutschland
📍 Alytus District Municipality, Lithuania
📍 Völkermarkt, Österreich
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Arūnas Juknevičius · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ludivine Lamare · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Ralph Martin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Guido Bohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Ilia Mikheev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Gemeinde Gitschtal, Gitschtal, Österreich:© ahabo · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Schutterwald, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Alytus District Municipality, Lithuania:© aliaska · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Völkermarkt, Österreich:© Günther Indra · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Carabus cancellatus is a ground beetle common in Central- and Northern Europe and Siberia. It has also been introduced into North America. 26 in).
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 3 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,458 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1798 (228 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Rasterschallebijter
- scientific name
- Carabus cancellatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- sightings in NL
- 3
- sightings in Europe
- 3,285
- sightings worldwide
- 3,458
- GBIF records in NL
- 298
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1798 by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
relatives· Carabidae
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Carabus granulatus
👀 142 in NL
#3243 📷 7Lesser Searcher Beetle
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Calosoma inquisitor
👀 137 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
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Harpalus rufipes
👀 77 in NL
#3338 📷 10Akkersnelloper
Anchomenus dorsalis
👀 49 in NL
#3355 📷 10Gewone roodkruin
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 497416, Wikidata Q20993, GBIF 4470480, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.