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#3395 · 🪲 beetles

Red Marsh Ladybird

🇳🇱 Ongevlekt Rietkapoentje ·Coccidula rufa

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
Red Marsh Ladybird, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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base stats

  • NL sightings 36iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 644iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 36 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 644 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1783 (243 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Red Marsh Ladybird
Nederlands
Ongevlekt Rietkapoentje
scientific name
Coccidula rufa
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Coccinellidae
sightings in NL
36
sightings in Europe
511
sightings worldwide
644
GBIF records in NL
2,163
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1783 by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst

relatives· Coccinellidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 547795, Wikidata Q467652, GBIF 5749341, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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