#3229 · 🪲 beetles
black-punctured leaf beetle
🇳🇱 Wormkruidhaantje ·Galeruca tanaceti
📍 Schoorlse Duinen, Bergen (NH), Noord-Holland, NL
📍 Ubbergen, Gelderland, Netherlands
📍 1935 AH Egmond-Binnen, Netherlands
📍 Wassenaar, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Kjetil Fjellheim · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © sanca13 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Nigel Jones · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Eskling · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 7. Schoorlse Duinen, Bergen (NH), Noord-Holland, NL:© wishauptr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Ubbergen, Gelderland, Netherlands:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 1935 AH Egmond-Binnen, Netherlands:© Daniel Onneweer · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Galeruca tanaceti is a species of leaf beetle, described by Linnaeus in 1758.
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 151 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 12,162 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- black-punctured leaf beetle
- Nederlands
- Wormkruidhaantje
- scientific name
- Galeruca tanaceti
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- sightings in NL
- 151
- sightings in Europe
- 6,583
- sightings worldwide
- 12,162
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,286
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 337907, Wikidata Q1307197, GBIF 5752087, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.