#3238 · 🪲 beetles
Four-spotted Carrion Beetle
🇳🇱 Rupsenaaskever ·Dendroxena quadrimaculata
📍 Goirle, Spoorbaan, 5051 ET Goirle, Netherlands
📍 Paltz, Soest, Utrecht, NL
📍 Vilsteren, Vilsteren, Overijssel, NL
📍 Hilversum, Nederland
📍 Bergen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © bugzone · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ricarda Bergen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © romanvrbicek · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ombrosoparacloucycle · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Didier · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Goirle, Spoorbaan, 5051 ET Goirle, Netherlands:© Tim de Goede · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Paltz, Soest, Utrecht, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Vilsteren, Vilsteren, Overijssel, NL:© caroool · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Hilversum, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Bergen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands:© Arnold Wijker · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Dendroxena quadrimaculata is a species of beetle belonging to the family Silphidae. It is native to Eurasia and 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 143 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,029 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1772 (254 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Four-spotted Carrion Beetle
- Nederlands
- Rupsenaaskever
- scientific name
- Dendroxena quadrimaculata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Staphylinidae
- sightings in NL
- 143
- sightings in Europe
- 1,937
- sightings worldwide
- 2,029
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,168
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1772 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
relatives· Staphylinidae
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Phosphuga atrata
👀 312 in NL
#3202 📷 10Devil's Coach Horse Beetle
🇳🇱 Stinkende kortschildkever
Ocypus olens
👀 276 in NL
#3219 📷 10Vespillo Burying Beetle
🇳🇱 Krompootdoodgraver
Nicrophorus vespillo
👀 180 in NL
#3223 📷 10Lesser Vespillo Burying Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone doodgraver
Nicrophorus vespilloides
👀 161 in NL
#3272 📷 10Silpha carinata
Silpha carinata
👀 90 in NL
#3273 📷 8Sad Carrion Beetle
Silpha tristis
👀 89 in NL
#3277 📷 10Anthobium unicolor
Anthobium unicolor
👀 86 in NL
#3283 📷 10Red-breasted Carrion Beetle
🇳🇱 Oranje Aaskever
Oiceoptoma thoracicum
👀 82 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 362481, Wikidata Q1041775, GBIF 4448534, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.