#3201 · 🪲 beetles

Spotted Longhorn Beetle

🇳🇱 Geringelde smalboktor ·Rutpela maculata

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
2. © qflieger · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Alexandre Leconte · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © aalestrup · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Joseph BALSON · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Joseph BALSON · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Eys, Netherlands:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Nationaal Park De Loonse en Drunense Duinen, Udenhout, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. 6081 AS Haelen, Holandia:© BabaJaga · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Geulle:© Jack Mommers · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Rutpela maculata , the Spotted Longhorn, is a beetle species of flower longhorns belonging to the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lepturinae.

base stats

NL sightings 307iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,114iNaturalist 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 307 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #39 most seen of the beetles in NL.
26,114 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus in 1761 (265 years ago).