#3411 · 🪲 beetles
Geribbelde aaskever
Thanatophilus sinuatus
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what is it?
Thanatophilus sinuatus is een keversoort behorend tot de familie van de Aaskevers. Hij komt voor op aas en karkassen tijdens het ontbindingsproces. Volwassen exemplaren zijn te vinden van mei tot september.
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 32 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,277 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Geribbelde aaskever
- scientific name
- Thanatophilus sinuatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Staphylinidae
- sightings in NL
- 32
- sightings in Europe
- 1,094
- sightings worldwide
- 1,277
- GBIF records in NL
- 588
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Staphylinidae
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Phosphuga atrata
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👀 276 in NL
#3219 📷 10Vespillo Burying Beetle
🇳🇱 Krompootdoodgraver
Nicrophorus vespillo
👀 180 in NL
#3223 📷 10Lesser Vespillo Burying Beetle
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Nicrophorus vespilloides
👀 161 in NL
#3238 📷 10Four-spotted Carrion Beetle
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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
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 131973, Wikidata Q1513667, GBIF 4448510, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.