#3294 · 🪲 beetles
chequered click beetle
🇳🇱 Fluweelkniptor ·Prosternon tessellatum
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Nieuwe Meentweg, Hilversum, North Holland, NL
📍 8899 Oost-Vlieland, Nederland
📍 7951 Staphorst, Nederland
📍 Boerenburg, 2203 Noordwijk, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © ingridaltmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Татьяна Дензанова · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Line Sabroe · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Nieuwe Meentweg, Hilversum, North Holland, NL:© Steven Schulting · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 8899 Oost-Vlieland, Nederland:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. 7951 Staphorst, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Boerenburg, 2203 Noordwijk, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Prosternon tessellatum is a species of click beetles native to Europe....
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.
- 3,448 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- chequered click beetle
- Nederlands
- Fluweelkniptor
- scientific name
- Prosternon tessellatum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Elateridae
- sightings in NL
- 74
- sightings in Europe
- 2,525
- sightings worldwide
- 3,448
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,060
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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
#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
#3311 📷 10Polderkniptor
Hemicrepidius niger
👀 65 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 496855, Wikidata Q1316400, GBIF 4428461, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.