#3386 · 🪲 beetles
Waterlily Leaf Beetle
🇳🇱 Waterleliehaantje ·Galerucella nymphaeae
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Matt Berger · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Stephan Mende · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © dnvarga · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Stanislav Litovkin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Laura J. Costello · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © sariai · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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 38 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,860 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Waterlily Leaf Beetle
- Nederlands
- Waterleliehaantje
- scientific name
- Galerucella nymphaeae
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- sightings in NL
- 38
- sightings in Europe
- 786
- sightings worldwide
- 3,860
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,119
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Chrysomelidae
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Agelastica alni
👀 1.5k in NL
#3181 📷 10Green Dock Beetle
🇳🇱 Groen zuringhaantje
Gastrophysa viridula
👀 515 in NL
#3184 📷 9Colorado Potato Beetle
🇳🇱 Coloradokever
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
👀 476 in NL
#3185 📷 10Rosemary Beetle
🇳🇱 Rozemarijngoudhaantje
Chrysolina americana
👀 475 in NL
#3205 📷 10Poplar Leaf Beetle
🇳🇱 Grote populierenhaan
Chrysomela populi
👀 247 in NL
#3209 📷 10Willow Flea-beetle
🇳🇱 Gouden wilgenaardvlo
Crepidodera aurata
👀 234 in NL
#3210 📷 10Mint beetle
🇳🇱 Blauw muntgoudhaantje
Chrysolina coerulans
👀 228 in NL
#3213 📷 10Gewone rietkever
Donacia clavipes
👀 197 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 53936, Wikidata Q1302113, GBIF 1048344, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.