#3391 · 🪲 beetles
Swollen Fungus Beetle
Cartodere nodifer
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Steve Kerr · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cartodere nodifer is a species of minute brown scavenger beetles native to Europe....
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 37 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 828 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Obadiah Westwood in 1839 (187 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Swollen Fungus Beetle
- scientific name
- Cartodere nodifer
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Latridiidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 37
- sightings in Europe
- 471
- sightings worldwide
- 828
- GBIF records in NL
- 386
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1839 by John Obadiah Westwood
relatives· Latridiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 456717, Wikidata Q2351054, GBIF 4451126, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.