#3321 · 🪲 beetles

Viburnum Leaf Beetle

🇳🇱 Sneeuwbalhaantje ·Pyrrhalta viburni

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © jim · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Ian Andrews · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Paweł Pieluszyński · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Heiloo, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Voorburg, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Assen, NL-DR, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Netherlands:© rhinodalf · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pyrrhalta viburni is a species of leaf beetle native to Europe and Asia, commonly known as the viburnum leaf beetle . It was first detected in North America in 1947 in Ontario, Canada. However, specimens had been collected in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in 1924. In 1996 it was discovered in a park in New York, where native plantings of arrowwood ( Viburnum dentatum complex) were found to be heavily damaged by larval feeding. The UK-based Royal Horticultural...

base stats

NL sightings 57iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,647iNaturalist observations

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 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
5,647 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Gustaf von Paykull till Valloxsäby och Hässelby in 1799 (227 years ago).