#3296 · 🪲 beetles
ivy boring beetle
🇳🇱 Klimopkever ·Ochina ptinoides
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Voorburg, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Herten, Herteheym, 6049 LB Herten, Nederland
📍 Wageningen, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Mark Webster · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Voorburg, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Herten, Herteheym, 6049 LB Herten, Nederland:© Elien Louwerse · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Wageningen, NL:© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Ochina ptinoides is a species of beetles in the genus Ochina of the family Anobiidae.
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 74 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 573 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Marsham in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- ivy boring beetle
- Nederlands
- Klimopkever
- scientific name
- Ochina ptinoides
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Ptinidae
- sightings in NL
- 74
- sightings in Europe
- 551
- sightings worldwide
- 573
- GBIF records in NL
- 987
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by Thomas Marsham
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 546075, Wikidata Q1944024, GBIF 4426887, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.