#3419 · 🪲 beetles
Hairy-horned Springtail-hunter
🇳🇱 Borstelspriet ·Loricera pilicornis
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 5056 NJ Berkel-Enschot, Nederland
📍 1792 BD Oudeschild, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © oldbilluk · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 5056 NJ Berkel-Enschot, Nederland:© Marleen Wiersema · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 1792 BD Oudeschild, Nederland:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Loricera pilicornis is a species of ground beetle native to Europe. It is found in shady places near water.
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 31 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,198 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hairy-horned Springtail-hunter
- Nederlands
- Borstelspriet
- scientific name
- Loricera pilicornis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- sightings in NL
- 31
- sightings in Europe
- 973
- sightings worldwide
- 1,198
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,034
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Carabidae
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Carabus granulatus
👀 142 in NL
#3243 📷 7Lesser Searcher Beetle
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Calosoma inquisitor
👀 137 in NL
#3252 📷 10Rough Violet Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Blauwzwarte schallebijter
Carabus problematicus
👀 122 in NL
#3256 📷 10Bronze Ground Beetle
🇳🇱 Tuinschallebijter
Carabus nemoralis
👀 113 in NL
#3286 📷 10European Gazelle Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone kortnek
Nebria brevicollis
👀 79 in NL
#3290 📷 10Strawberry Seed Beetle
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Harpalus rufipes
👀 77 in NL
#3338 📷 10Akkersnelloper
Anchomenus dorsalis
👀 49 in NL
#3355 📷 10Gewone roodkruin
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👀 46 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 131819, Wikidata Q1316474, GBIF 1035290, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.