#3472 · 🪲 beetles

Hairy Rose Beetle

Tropinota squalida

🪲 Beetles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Bas van Hulst-Kuiper · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
5. © Alain Roujas · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © Alejandro Ocampo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Tropinota squalida is a beetle species belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,459iNaturalist 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.
6,459 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1783 (243 years ago).