#3342 · 🪲 beetles

Ribbed Pine Borer

🇳🇱 Grijze ribbelboktor ·Rhagium inquisitor

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Dönersaurus · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Vytautas · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Andrei · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 1935 Egmond-Binnen, Nederland:© Arnold Wijker · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 2242 PZ Wassenaar, Nederland:© videler · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Stationsstraat, Wageningen, Gelderland, NL:© apaltra · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Soest, Netherlands:© Sonja Bouwman-Gringhuis · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 3931 MG Woudenberg, Nederland:© metaxymorpha · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Noord Tilburg, Tilburg, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Rhagium inquisitor , the “ribbed pine borer”, is a species of longhorn beetle in the family Cerambycidae. The species is widely distributed in the Holarctic and is associated mainly with dead or recently felled coniferous wood.

base stats

NL sightings 48iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,806iNaturalist 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).