#3464 · 🪲 beetles

Willow Clytra

🇳🇱 Zuidelijke mierenzakkever ·Clytra laeviuscula

🪲 Beetles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
2. © Siga · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © NobbiP · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © ahmed m · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © qflieger · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Ghimpați, România:© Cristina Florentina Alistar · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Waldeggstraße 44a, Linz, Upper Austria, AT:© flytofreedom · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. Сента, Србија:© Ivan Pancic · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Süd, Leipzig, Deutschland:© jansson · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Clytra laeviuscula , the ant bag beetle , is a species of short-horned leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Clytrinae....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,359iNaturalist observations

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.
12,359 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg in 1837 (189 years ago).