#3280 · 🪲 beetles

Sulphur Beetle

🇳🇱 Zwavelgele bloemenkever ·Cteniopus sulphureus

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © naturalist_ua · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Steluma · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Ettore Balocchi · CC BY 4.0
4. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Uitkijkpunt de Waterral, Unnamed Road, 1797, 1797 Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
7. Strand Renesse-West, Haamstede, Zeeland, NL:© whoisln · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Fryslân, NL:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 2235 Valkenburg, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Meijendel and Berkheide, Wassenaar, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Cteniopus sulphureus is a species of comb-clawed beetles belonging to the family Tenebrionidae subfamily Alleculinae.

base stats

NL sightings 84iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,031iNaturalist 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).