#3263 · 🪲 beetles
Dasytes caeruleus
Dasytes caeruleus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Dasytes caeruleus is een kever in de familie Melyridae. Hij heeft een lengte 5 tot 7 mm. Poten en voelsprieten zijn zwart. De rest van het lichaam is metallic blauw tot groen, in zeldzame gevallen donker.
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 102 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,967 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Dasytes caeruleus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Melyridae
- sightings in NL
- 102
- sightings in Europe
- 1,343
- sightings worldwide
- 1,967
- GBIF records in NL
- 204
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Melyridae
#3224 📷 10Common Malachite-beetle
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Malachius bipustulatus
👀 158 in NL
#3297 📷 10Red Malachite Beetle
Anthocomus rufus
👀 73 in NL
#3387 📷 10Dubbelgevlekte bastaardweekschildkever
Anthocomus fasciatus
👀 38 in NL
#3416 📷 10Eurasian Red-and-black Melyrid
Anthocomus equestris
👀 31 in NL
#3435 📷 10Duinbloemweekschildkever
Psilothrix viridicoerulea
👀 18 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 495255, Wikidata Q882747, GBIF 4449870, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.