#3357 · 🪲 beetles

Pointed-keeled Rhyzobius

🇳🇱 Graslandnepkapoentje ·Rhyzobius litura

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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2. © Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
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what is it?

Rhyzobius litura is a species of beetle in family Coccinellidae. It is found in the Palearctic It is mainly found in Western Europe, especially in the United Kingdom In the southeast, the area spreads to Bulgaria and Greece. In the East it is partly replaced by the related species Rhyzobius chrysomeloides . The species lives in forests on trees and on various herbaceous plants in places where it is protected from wind and weather.

base stats

NL sightings 46iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 867iNaturalist 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).