#3346 · 🪲 beetles
Orange-spotted Scaphidium
🇳🇱 Gevlekte schimmelkever ·Scaphidium quadrimaculatum
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what is it?
Scaphidium quadrimaculatum , common name orange-spotted scaphidium or shining fungus beetle , is a species of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae subfamily Scaphidiinae....
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
- Spotted 47 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,651 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Orange-spotted Scaphidium
- Nederlands
- Gevlekte schimmelkever
- scientific name
- Scaphidium quadrimaculatum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Staphylinidae
- sightings in NL
- 47
- sightings in Europe
- 2,568
- sightings worldwide
- 2,651
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,394
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
relatives· Staphylinidae
#3199 📷 10Black snail beetle
🇳🇱 Slakkenaaskever
Phosphuga atrata
👀 312 in NL
#3202 📷 10Devil's Coach Horse Beetle
🇳🇱 Stinkende kortschildkever
Ocypus olens
👀 276 in NL
#3219 📷 10Vespillo Burying Beetle
🇳🇱 Krompootdoodgraver
Nicrophorus vespillo
👀 180 in NL
#3223 📷 10Lesser Vespillo Burying Beetle
🇳🇱 Gewone doodgraver
Nicrophorus vespilloides
👀 161 in NL
#3238 📷 10Four-spotted Carrion Beetle
🇳🇱 Rupsenaaskever
Dendroxena quadrimaculata
👀 143 in NL
#3272 📷 10Silpha carinata
Silpha carinata
👀 90 in NL
#3273 📷 8Sad Carrion Beetle
Silpha tristis
👀 89 in NL
#3277 📷 10Anthobium unicolor
Anthobium unicolor
👀 86 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 362280, Wikidata Q2228954, GBIF 5746803, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.