#3227 · 🪲 beetles
Kidney-spot Ladybird
🇳🇱 Niervleklieveheersbeestje ·Chilocorus renipustulatus
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what is it?
Het niervleklieveheersbeestje ( Chilocorus renipustulatus ) is een kever uit de familie van de lieveheersbeestjes (Coccinellidae).
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 154 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,823 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Kidney-spot Ladybird
- Nederlands
- Niervleklieveheersbeestje
- scientific name
- Chilocorus renipustulatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Coccinellidae
- sightings in NL
- 154
- sightings in Europe
- 3,551
- sightings worldwide
- 3,823
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,092
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba
relatives· Coccinellidae
#3163 📷 9Asian Lady Beetle
🇳🇱 Aziatisch lieveheersbeestje
Harmonia axyridis
👀 6.3k in NL
#3164 📷 10Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
🇳🇱 Zevenstippelig lieveheersbeestje
Coccinella septempunctata
👀 4.7k in NL
#3167 📷 7Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
🇳🇱 Schaakbordlieveheersbeestje
Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
👀 1.4k in NL
#3168 📷 822-spot Ladybird
🇳🇱 Citroenlieveheersbeestje
Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata
👀 1k in NL
#3175 📷 10Two-spotted Lady Beetle
🇳🇱 Tweestippelig lieveheersbeestje
Adalia bipunctata
👀 696 in NL
#3182 📷 7Pine Ladybird
🇳🇱 Viervleklieveheersbeestje
Exochomus quadripustulatus
👀 508 in NL
#3186 📷 10Orange Ladybird
🇳🇱 Meeldauwlieveheersbeestje
Halyzia sedecimguttata
👀 462 in NL
#3191 📷 1016-spot Ladybird
🇳🇱 Zestienstippelig Lieveheersbeestje
Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata
👀 381 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 126636, Wikidata Q1431289, GBIF 4452277, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.