#3497 · 🪲 beetles
White-spotted Sawyer
Monochamus scutellatus
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- 2. © Dom Col · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 8. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Monochamus scutellatus , commonly known as the white-spotted sawyer or spruce sawyer , is a common wood-boring beetle found throughout North America. It is a species native to North America.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 30,471 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1824 (202 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-spotted Sawyer
- scientific name
- Monochamus scutellatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cerambycidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 30,471
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1824 by Thomas Say
relatives· Cerambycidae
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👀 480 in NL
#3187 📷 10four-banded longhorn beetle
🇳🇱 Gevlekte smalboktor
Leptura quadrifasciata
👀 421 in NL
#3194 📷 10Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle
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Agapanthia villosoviridescens
👀 345 in NL
#3200 📷 10common grammoptera
🇳🇱 Gewone bloesemboktor
Grammoptera ruficornis
👀 308 in NL
#3201 📷 10Spotted Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Geringelde smalboktor
Rutpela maculata
👀 307 in NL
#3221 📷 8Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
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Stenurella melanura
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#3222 📷 10Fairy-ring Longhorn Beetle
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👀 167 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 82043, Wikidata Q1511896, GBIF 4293488, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.