#3429 · 🪲 beetles

Metallic Harpalus

🇳🇱 Behaarde kruiper ·Harpalus affinis

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Shamil Murtazin · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © bsteer · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Scott Gilmore · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 6708 DE Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. Wageningen, Nederland:© Ties Kemme · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Nieuwe Niedorp, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 6713 LA Ede, Netherlands:© Boaz van Die · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Harpalus affinis is a species of ground beetle native to the Palearctic, and introduced in the Nearctic and the Australasian region. In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City. Its presence...

base stats

NL sightings 28iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,719iNaturalist 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).