#3473 · 🪲 beetles
Alpine longhorn Rosalia
🇳🇱 Alpenboktor ·Rosalia alpina
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Dragonfyre · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Igor Balashov · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Miroslav Marić · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Rosalia longicorn ( Rosalia alpina ) or Alpine longhorn beetle , is a large longicorn (family Cerambycidae) that is distinguished by its distinctive markings.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,194 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Alpine longhorn Rosalia
- Nederlands
- Alpenboktor
- scientific name
- Rosalia alpina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Cerambycidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5,817
- sightings worldwide
- 6,194
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cerambycidae
#3173 📷 10Wasp Beetle
🇳🇱 Kleine Wespenbok
Clytus arietis
👀 763 in NL
#3183 📷 10Red Pine Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Rode smalbok
Stictoleptura rubra
👀 480 in NL
#3187 📷 10four-banded longhorn beetle
🇳🇱 Gevlekte smalboktor
Leptura quadrifasciata
👀 421 in NL
#3194 📷 10Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone Distelboktor
Agapanthia villosoviridescens
👀 345 in NL
#3200 📷 10common grammoptera
🇳🇱 Gewone bloesemboktor
Grammoptera ruficornis
👀 308 in NL
#3201 📷 10Spotted Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Geringelde smalboktor
Rutpela maculata
👀 307 in NL
#3221 📷 8Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Tweekleurige smalboktor
Stenurella melanura
👀 167 in NL
#3222 📷 10Fairy-ring Longhorn Beetle
🇳🇱 Ingekeepte smalboktor
Pseudovadonia livida
👀 167 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 56228, Wikidata Q839571, GBIF 1159839, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.