#3470 · 🪲 beetles

Great capricorn beetle

🇳🇱 Heldenbok ·Cerambyx cerdo

VUvulnerable 🪲 Beetles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Ralph Martin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Santiago Soto Maurer · CC0
5. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Sunray Avenue, London, England, GB:© no rights reserved · CC0
7. 87430 Verneuil-sur-Vienne, France:© Ludivine Lamare · CC BY 4.0
8. Humljani, Croatia:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. Hietzing-West, Wien, Austria:© Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Baden-Württemberg, DE:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Cerambyx cerdo , commonly known as great capricorn beetle , is a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae. It is widespread in Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Moldova, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,886iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

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.
6,886 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.