#3494 · 🪲 beetles

Oriental Beetle

Exomala orientalis

🪲 Beetles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Tom Murray · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jake McCumber · CC BY 4.0
4. © spharvell · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © yakfur · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © 103744238038089080957 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Rob Curtis · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

4 inches) long, with mottled, metallic brown- and black-colored elytra and a similarly-colored thorax and head during the adult stage. It is sometimes confused with the Japanese beetle. During the larval stage the oriental beetle can be identified by the parallel line raster pattern. It is native to Asia and was...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 32,656iNaturalist 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).