#3441 · 🪲 beetles
Roodschildkever
Lygistopterus sanguineus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 29640 Schneverdingen, Deutschland
📍 Gostynin County, Poland
📍 Нытва, Пермский край, Россия
📍 Первомайский р-н, Алтайский край, Россия
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © gbohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Levet Bernard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sokolov Yuriy Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Соколков Юрий Павлович · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 29640 Schneverdingen, Deutschland:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Gostynin County, Poland:© Paweł Śledziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Нытва, Пермский край, Россия:© Дарья · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Первомайский р-н, Алтайский край, Россия:© Богинский Евгений Иванович · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Lygistopterus sanguineus is a species of net-winged beetle in the family Lycidae.
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 10 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,005 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Roodschildkever
- scientific name
- Lygistopterus sanguineus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Lycidae
- sightings in NL
- 10
- sightings in Europe
- 4,633
- sightings worldwide
- 5,005
- GBIF records in NL
- 532
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 501467, Wikidata Q475786, GBIF 4428338, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.