#3276 · 🪲 beetles
peardrop beetle
🇳🇱 Tuimelaar ·Cybister lateralimarginalis
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Cybister lateralimarginalis is a species of beetle native to the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East and North Africa.
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
- Spotted 86 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,901 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles De Geer in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- peardrop beetle
- Nederlands
- Tuimelaar
- scientific name
- Cybister lateralimarginalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Dytiscidae
- sightings in NL
- 86
- sightings in Europe
- 1,666
- sightings worldwide
- 1,901
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,088
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Charles De Geer
relatives· Dytiscidae
#3348 📷 10Cosmopolitan Diving Beetle
🇳🇱 Bepoederde waterroofkever
Rhantus suturalis
👀 47 in NL
#3365 📷 10Lesser Diving-beetle
🇳🇱 Gegroefde haarwaterroofkever
Acilius sulcatus
👀 43 in NL
#3369 📷 10Great Diving Beetle
🇳🇱 Geelgerande Watertor
Dytiscus marginalis
👀 42 in NL
#3407 📷 10large-grooved diving beetle
🇳🇱 Bruine duiker
Colymbetes fuscus
👀 33 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 465118, Wikidata Q1214623, GBIF 4470300, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.