#3316 · 🪲 beetles

Black Longicorn Beetle

🇳🇱 Wortelboktor ·Spondylis buprestoides

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
2. © tikitu · CC0
3. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Pierre Bornand · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
6. Klarenbeek, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Buitengebied, Baarn, Utrecht, NL:© Nelleke Schuurman · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Renkum:© macelly · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Westerveld, Drenthe, Netherlands:© René Manger · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Otterlo, Gelderland, NL:© Siebe Ritsema van Eck · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Spondylis buprestoides is bark and wood-boring beetle from the genus Spondylis . These beetles are shiny black and have a cylindrical shape and have large mandibles.

base stats

NL sightings 61iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,677iNaturalist 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).