#3400 · 🪲 beetles
Mordellochroa abdominalis
Mordellochroa abdominalis
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Mordellochroa abdominalis is a beetle in the Mordellochroa genus, which is in the Mordellidae family. It was described in 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius.
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 35 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,023 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Mordellochroa abdominalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Mordellidae
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 560
- sightings worldwide
- 1,023
- GBIF records in NL
- 82
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 496687, Wikidata Q2751183, GBIF 4456599, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.