#3364 · 🪲 beetles
Rain Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone streeploopkever ·Pterostichus melanarius
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 Deurze
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 3271 Mijnsheerenland, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Thaddeus Charles Jones · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pierrick Bloin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Deurze:© Andre Hosper · CC BY 4.0
- 6. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 9. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 10. 3271 Mijnsheerenland, Nederland:© reyon · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pterostichus melanarius is a species of ground beetle 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 43 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,257 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1798 (228 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Rain Beetle
- Nederlands
- Gewone streeploopkever
- scientific name
- Pterostichus melanarius
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- sightings in NL
- 43
- sightings in Europe
- 1,107
- sightings worldwide
- 7,257
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,793
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1798 by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
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👀 142 in NL
#3243 📷 7Lesser Searcher Beetle
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👀 137 in NL
#3252 📷 10Rough Violet Ground Beetle
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👀 122 in NL
#3256 📷 10Bronze Ground Beetle
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Carabus nemoralis
👀 113 in NL
#3286 📷 10European Gazelle Beetle
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Nebria brevicollis
👀 79 in NL
#3290 📷 10Strawberry Seed Beetle
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👀 77 in NL
#3338 📷 10Akkersnelloper
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👀 49 in NL
#3355 📷 10Gewone roodkruin
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 131931, Wikidata Q3410292, GBIF 7856746, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.