#3288 · 🪲 beetles
Depressed Aquatic Leaf Beetle
Donacia marginata
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Zuid-Holland, Nederland
📍 Rockanje, Nederland
📍 6708 HM Wageningen, Netherlands
📍 Nieuwegein, Nederland
📍 Zuid-Holland, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jan Grathwohl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Rockanje, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. 6708 HM Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. Nieuwegein, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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 79 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 807 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by David Heinrich Hoppe in 1795 (231 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Depressed Aquatic Leaf Beetle
- scientific name
- Donacia marginata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- sightings in NL
- 79
- sightings in Europe
- 611
- sightings worldwide
- 807
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,129
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1795 by David Heinrich Hoppe
relatives· Chrysomelidae
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#3181 📷 10Green Dock Beetle
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👀 515 in NL
#3184 📷 9Colorado Potato Beetle
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Leptinotarsa decemlineata
👀 476 in NL
#3185 📷 10Rosemary Beetle
🇳🇱 Rozemarijngoudhaantje
Chrysolina americana
👀 475 in NL
#3205 📷 10Poplar Leaf Beetle
🇳🇱 Grote populierenhaan
Chrysomela populi
👀 247 in NL
#3209 📷 10Willow Flea-beetle
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Crepidodera aurata
👀 234 in NL
#3210 📷 10Mint beetle
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Chrysolina coerulans
👀 228 in NL
#3213 📷 10Gewone rietkever
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👀 197 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 497030, Wikidata Q1313037, GBIF 4461519, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.