#3489 · 🪲 beetles

Red Milkweed Beetle

Tetraopes tetrophthalmus

🪲 Beetles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The red milkweed beetle ( Tetraopes tetrophthalmus ) is a beetle in the family Cerambycidae. " As in many longhorn beetles, the antennae are situated very near the eye–in the red milkweed beetle, this adaptation has been carried to an extreme: the antennal base actually bisects the eye.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 52,055iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
52,055 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1771 (255 years ago).