skip to content

#3187 · 🪲 beetles

four-banded longhorn beetle

🇳🇱 Gevlekte smalboktor ·Leptura quadrifasciata

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
four-banded longhorn beetle, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © steve_evans · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Longhorn beetle , Leptura quadrifasciata ( Strangalia quadrifasciata ), is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Linnaeus in 1758.

base stats

  • NL sightings 421iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 12,597iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • Spotted 421 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #25 most seen of the beetles in NL.
  • 12,597 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
four-banded longhorn beetle
Nederlands
Gevlekte smalboktor
scientific name
Leptura quadrifasciata
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Cerambycidae
sightings in NL
421
sightings in Europe
11,693
sightings worldwide
12,597
GBIF records in NL
15,224
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Cerambycidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 325731, Wikidata Q1931505, GBIF 4458782, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

stan runge e33afe5 source