#3488 · 🪲 beetles
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Cicindela sexguttata
🪲 Beetles 📍 outside Europe
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- 10. © Kathy Richardson · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The six-spotted tiger beetle , also known as the six-spotted green tiger beetle ( Cicindela sexguttata ), is a common North American species of ground beetle in the Cicindelinae subfamily.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 56,393 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
- scientific name
- Cicindela sexguttata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cicindelidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 56,393
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Cicindelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49566, Wikidata Q1570784, GBIF 1034887, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.