#3407 · 🪲 beetles

large-grooved diving beetle

🇳🇱 Bruine duiker ·Colymbetes fuscus

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © John Pitts · CC BY 4.0
2. © oldbilluk · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Mick Talbot · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Noord-Brabant, NL:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
7. Ede, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 1935 Egmond-Binnen, Nederland:© Jip · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Bloemendaal, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Helvoirtsestraat, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, NL:© dvanvianen · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Colymbetes fuscus is a species of beetle native to the Palearctic, including Europe, the Near East and North Africa. In Europe, it is only found in Austria, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain including Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides and Isle of Man, Bulgaria, the Channel Islands, Corsica, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, European Turkey, Finland, mainland France, Germany, mainland Greece, Hungary, the Republic of Ireland, mainland Italy, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Liechtenstein,...

base stats

NL sightings 33iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,176iNaturalist 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).