#3212 · 🪲 beetles
Green Tiger Beetle
🇳🇱 Groene Zandloopkever ·Cicindela campestris
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 de kluis
📍 7371 DD Loenen, Netherlands
📍 Den Dolder, Nederland
📍 Winterswijk, Holandia
📍 Ede, Gelderland, NL
📍 Dwingeloo, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Glenn Costello · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Bart · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © cbranston · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. de kluis:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 7371 DD Loenen, Netherlands:© tricky_vicky · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Den Dolder, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Winterswijk, Holandia:© Maksymilian Wojtkiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Ede, Gelderland, NL:© Siebe Ritsema van Eck · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Dwingeloo, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cicindela campestris , commonly called the green tiger beetle is a widespread Eurasian species of tiger beetle. It is the type species of the large genus Cicindela .
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 215 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #50 most seen of the beetles in NL.
- 18,552 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green Tiger Beetle
- Nederlands
- Groene Zandloopkever
- scientific name
- Cicindela campestris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cicindelidae
- sightings in NL
- 215
- sightings in Europe
- 17,471
- sightings worldwide
- 18,552
- GBIF records in NL
- 11,309
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Cicindelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130143, Wikidata Q717055, GBIF 4480485, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.