#3379 · 🪲 beetles
Melanotus punctolineatus
Melanotus punctolineatus
📍 Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland
📍 Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland
📍 Den Helder, Nederland
📍 Noordwijk aan Zee, Noordwijk, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0
- 2. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Den Helder, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Noordwijk aan Zee, Noordwijk, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Melanotus punctolineatus , commonly known as the sandwich click beetle , is a species of beetle from the family Elateridae and the genus Melanotus .
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.
- 1,062 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Melanotus punctolineatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Elateridae
- sightings in NL
- 40
- sightings in Europe
- 187
- sightings worldwide
- 1,062
- GBIF records in NL
- 275
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Elateridae
#3189 📷 10common brown click beetle
🇳🇱 Roodaarskniptor
Athous haemorrhoidalis
👀 404 in NL
#3190 📷 10Mottled dingy-brown click beetle
🇳🇱 Muisgrijze kniptor
Agrypnus murinus
👀 395 in NL
#3264 📷 7Zwarte speerkniptor
Ectinus aterrimus
👀 100 in NL
#3266 📷 10bordered click beetle
🇳🇱 Slanke kniptor
Denticollis linearis
👀 98 in NL
#3294 📷 10chequered click beetle
🇳🇱 Fluweelkniptor
Prosternon tessellatum
👀 74 in NL
#3298 📷 10margined click beetle
🇳🇱 Gerande kniptor
Dalopius marginatus
👀 72 in NL
#3301 📷 10Koperkleurige kniptor
Cidnopus aeruginosus
👀 71 in NL
#3308 📷 7Athous subfuscus
Athous subfuscus
👀 66 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 496410, Wikidata Q1633914, GBIF 6097350, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.