#3211 · 🪲 beetles
Lesser Stag Beetle
🇳🇱 Klein vliegend hert ·Dorcus parallelipipedus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Michal Maňas · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michal Maňas · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Flavio Rocchi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Dorcus parallelipipedus , the lesser stag beetle , is a species of stag beetle found in Europe.
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 222 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #49 most seen of the beetles in NL.
- 50,039 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lesser Stag Beetle
- Nederlands
- Klein vliegend hert
- scientific name
- Dorcus parallelipipedus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Lucanidae
- sightings in NL
- 222
- sightings in Europe
- 48,305
- sightings worldwide
- 50,039
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,311
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Lucanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 123920, Wikidata Q805094, GBIF 5743112, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.