#3378 · 🪲 beetles
Lesser Silver Water Beetle
🇳🇱 Kleine Spinnende Watertor ·Hydrochara caraboides
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 De Brand, Udenhout, North Brabant, NL
📍 Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-TI, NL-NB, NL
📍 Drenthe, NL
📍 Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-TI, NL-NB, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ondřej Zicha · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Olli Pihlajamaa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ondřej Zicha · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. De Brand, Udenhout, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-TI, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Drenthe, NL:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-TI, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The lesser silver water beetle ( Hydrochara caraboides ) is a species of water scavenger beetle (family Hydrophilidae).
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 40 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,334 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lesser Silver Water Beetle
- Nederlands
- Kleine Spinnende Watertor
- scientific name
- Hydrochara caraboides
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Hydrophilidae
- sightings in NL
- 40
- sightings in Europe
- 1,119
- sightings worldwide
- 1,334
- GBIF records in NL
- 942
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Hydrophilidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 465809, Wikidata Q1054965, GBIF 4434004, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.