#3188 · 🪲 beetles
Black-headed Cardinal Beetle
🇳🇱 Zwartkopvuurkever ·Pyrochroa coccinea
📍 Park Oude Haven, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, NL
📍 9747 AV Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Almere Buiten, Almere, Netherlands
📍 Noord-Holland, NL
📍 9745 DT Groningen, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Walwyn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Danny Siwek · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Zdeňka Nováková · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Park Oude Haven, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, NL:© hanna_van_den_hil · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 9747 AV Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Almere Buiten, Almere, Netherlands:© Jeremiah Degenhardt · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Noord-Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. 9745 DT Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The name cardinal beetle typically refers to three different species of beetles. The red-headed or 'common' cardinal beetle ( Pyrochroa serraticornis ) is a red to orange beetle with, as the name suggests, a red head. 79 in) long, and is found throughout Britain. The rarer black-headed cardinal beetle ( P. coccinea ), similarly found at sites across Britain, is larger and a deeper blood red. The scarce cardinal beetle ( Schizotus pectinicornis ) also has a black...
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 411 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #26 most seen of the beetles in NL.
- 14,393 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black-headed Cardinal Beetle
- Nederlands
- Zwartkopvuurkever
- scientific name
- Pyrochroa coccinea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Pyrochroidae
- sightings in NL
- 411
- sightings in Europe
- 13,239
- sightings worldwide
- 14,393
- GBIF records in NL
- 14,407
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
relatives· Pyrochroidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 51680, Wikidata Q179827, GBIF 5751237, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.