#3315 · 🪲 beetles
Four-spotted Sap Beetle
Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Glischrochilus quadrisignatus , known generally as four-spotted sap beetle , is a species of sap-feeding beetle in the family Nitidulidae. Other common names include the beer bug and picnic beetle . It is found in North America.
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 62 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,718 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1835 (191 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Four-spotted Sap Beetle
- scientific name
- Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Nitidulidae
- sightings in NL
- 62
- sightings in Europe
- 1,262
- sightings worldwide
- 5,718
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,427
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1835 by Thomas Say
relatives· Nitidulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 203328, Wikidata Q1772759, GBIF 4453163, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.