#3264 · 🪲 beetles
Zwarte speerkniptor
Ectinus aterrimus
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what is it?
Ectinus aterrimus is een keversoort uit de familie van de kniptorren (Elateridae). De wetenschappelijke naam is gepubliceerd in 1761 door Linnaeus.
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 100 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,134 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Zwarte speerkniptor
- scientific name
- Ectinus aterrimus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Elateridae
- sightings in NL
- 100
- sightings in Europe
- 612
- sightings worldwide
- 1,134
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,626
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Elateridae
#3189 📷 10common brown click beetle
🇳🇱 Roodaarskniptor
Athous haemorrhoidalis
👀 404 in NL
#3190 📷 10Mottled dingy-brown click beetle
🇳🇱 Muisgrijze kniptor
Agrypnus murinus
👀 395 in NL
#3266 📷 10bordered click beetle
🇳🇱 Slanke kniptor
Denticollis linearis
👀 98 in NL
#3294 📷 10chequered click beetle
🇳🇱 Fluweelkniptor
Prosternon tessellatum
👀 74 in NL
#3298 📷 10margined click beetle
🇳🇱 Gerande kniptor
Dalopius marginatus
👀 72 in NL
#3301 📷 10Koperkleurige kniptor
Cidnopus aeruginosus
👀 71 in NL
#3308 📷 7Athous subfuscus
Athous subfuscus
👀 66 in NL
#3311 📷 10Polderkniptor
Hemicrepidius niger
👀 65 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 522264, Wikidata Q464965, GBIF 4429275, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.