#3448 · 🪲 beetles
Grape Wood Borer
🇳🇱 Kommawespenboktor ·Chlorophorus varius
📍 ريمة الفخور، Syria
📍 34070 Savogna d'Isonzo GO, Italia
📍 Варна, Болгария
📍 Nadzaladevi District, Tbilisi, Georgia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ivica Pakrac · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ivica Pakrac · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Mirko Tomasi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Alain C. · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Ivica Pakrac · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. ريمة الفخور، Syria:© قصي مجدو ابو فخر · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 34070 Savogna d'Isonzo GO, Italia:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. Варна, Болгария:© victorsh · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Nadzaladevi District, Tbilisi, Georgia:© Nina Abesadze · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Chlorophorus varius is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. F. Müller in 1766.
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 4 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,157 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Grape Wood Borer
- Nederlands
- Kommawespenboktor
- scientific name
- Chlorophorus varius
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cerambycidae
- sightings in NL
- 4
- sightings in Europe
- 3,712
- sightings worldwide
- 4,157
- GBIF records in NL
- 97
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Otto Friedrich Müller
relatives· Cerambycidae
#3173 📷 10Wasp Beetle
🇳🇱 Kleine Wespenbok
Clytus arietis
👀 763 in NL
#3183 📷 10Red Pine Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Rode smalbok
Stictoleptura rubra
👀 480 in NL
#3187 📷 10four-banded longhorn beetle
🇳🇱 Gevlekte smalboktor
Leptura quadrifasciata
👀 421 in NL
#3194 📷 10Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone Distelboktor
Agapanthia villosoviridescens
👀 345 in NL
#3200 📷 10common grammoptera
🇳🇱 Gewone bloesemboktor
Grammoptera ruficornis
👀 308 in NL
#3201 📷 10Spotted Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Geringelde smalboktor
Rutpela maculata
👀 307 in NL
#3221 📷 8Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Tweekleurige smalboktor
Stenurella melanura
👀 167 in NL
#3222 📷 10Fairy-ring Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Ingekeepte smalboktor
Pseudovadonia livida
👀 167 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 129382, Wikidata Q1755377, GBIF 4459546, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.