#3262 · 🪲 beetles
Grooved Leaf Beetle
🇳🇱 Liesgrasrietkever ·Donacia semicuprea
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, Zuid-Holland, NL
📍 Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, NL
📍 Bunnik, Utrecht, Netherlands
📍 3434 Nieuwegein, Nederland
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 Buitengebied Noord, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, NL
📍 Leidschendam, Vlientland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stefanie Mückner · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © AWI i Pr. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Mick Talbot · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, Zuid-Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 5. Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 6. Bunnik, Utrecht, Netherlands:© M. van Dijk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 3434 Nieuwegein, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. Buitengebied Noord, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, NL:© hdreko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Leidschendam, Vlientland:© Adrian · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Donacia semicuprea is a species of leaf beetles of the subfamily of Donaciinae.
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 105 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 990 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1796 (230 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Grooved Leaf Beetle
- Nederlands
- Liesgrasrietkever
- scientific name
- Donacia semicuprea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- sightings in NL
- 105
- sightings in Europe
- 833
- sightings worldwide
- 990
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,044
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1796 by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
relatives· Chrysomelidae
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🇳🇱 Elzenhaantje
Agelastica alni
👀 1.5k in NL
#3181 📷 10Green Dock Beetle
🇳🇱 Groen zuringhaantje
Gastrophysa viridula
👀 515 in NL
#3184 📷 9Colorado Potato Beetle
🇳🇱 Coloradokever
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
🇳🇱 Gouden wilgenaardvlo
Crepidodera aurata
👀 234 in NL
#3210 📷 10Mint beetle
🇳🇱 Blauw muntgoudhaantje
Chrysolina coerulans
👀 228 in NL
#3213 📷 10Gewone rietkever
Donacia clavipes
👀 197 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 460534, Wikidata Q515362, GBIF 4461522, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.