#3433 · 🪲 beetles
Eurasian Bee Beetle
🇳🇱 Penseelkever ·Trichius fasciatus
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ulf Teghammar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © yury-redkin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © François-Xavier Taxil · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Tatiana Bulyonkova · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © lorenzodotti · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Katrin Simon · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Eeva Saarisalo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Trichius fasciatus is a beetle species belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae.
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 21 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 14,071 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Eurasian Bee Beetle
- Nederlands
- Penseelkever
- scientific name
- Trichius fasciatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Scarabaeidae
- sightings in NL
- 21
- sightings in Europe
- 11,713
- sightings worldwide
- 14,071
- GBIF records in NL
- 83
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Scarabaeidae
#3170 📷 10Garden Chafer
🇳🇱 Rozenkever
Phyllopertha horticola
👀 909 in NL
#3174 📷 7Common Cockchafer
🇳🇱 Gewone meikever
Melolontha melolontha
👀 714 in NL
#3195 📷 10Brown Chafer
🇳🇱 Roestbruine bladsprietkever
Serica brunnea
👀 335 in NL
#3204 📷 8Kortvleugelboorkever
Valgus hemipterus
👀 273 in NL
#3215 📷 10French Flower Chafer
🇳🇱 Penseelkever
Trichius gallicus
👀 192 in NL
#3226 📷 8Pine Chafer
🇳🇱 Julikever
Polyphylla fullo
👀 157 in NL
#3235 📷 10European Rose Chafer
🇳🇱 Gouden tor
Cetonia aurata
👀 146 in NL
#3240 📷 10Dune Chafer
🇳🇱 Zomersmaragd
Anomala dubia
👀 141 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 55783, Wikidata Q1387496, GBIF 1085188, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.