#3394 · 🪲 beetles

Grote viervlekschorsloper

Dromius quadrimaculatus

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © oldbilluk · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
3. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
4. © Sean Birk Bek Craig · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Pierrick Bloin · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Amsterdam-Noord, Amsterdam, Netherlands:© Stan van Remmerden · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. Nuenen, Nederland:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
9. Wageningen, Nederland:© Ties Kemme · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Voorschoten, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Dromius quadrimaculatus is a species of ground beetle native to the Palearctic (including Europe) and the Near East. In Europe, it is found in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, Finland, mainland France, Germany, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, mainland Greece, Hungary, the Republic of Ireland, mainland Italy, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Northern Ireland, mainland Norway, Poland, Russia, Sardinia...

base stats

NL sightings 36iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,219iNaturalist observations

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).