#3487 · 🪲 beetles
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
Diabrotica undecimpunctata
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what is it?
The spotted cucumber beetle ( Diabrotica undecimpunctata ) is a beetle native to North America. The beetle is also a major agricultural pest insect of North America (see also cucumber beetle).
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 70,453 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Gustaf Mannerheim in 1843 (183 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Spotted Cucumber Beetle
- scientific name
- Diabrotica undecimpunctata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 70,453
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1843 by Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
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#3205 📷 10Poplar Leaf Beetle
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👀 247 in NL
#3209 📷 10Willow Flea-beetle
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👀 234 in NL
#3210 📷 10Mint beetle
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 55487, Wikidata Q1615807, GBIF 1048501, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.