#3985 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Hawthorn Shield Bug
🇳🇱 Meidoornkielwants ·Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 8385 GL Vledderveen, Netherlands
📍 Kloosterlaan, Huissen, Gelderland, NL
📍 Doorwerth, Netherlands
📍 8HX2+7V Eendenvlak, 2114 Bentveld, Netherlands
📍 Oude Dwingelerdijk, Ansen, Drenthe, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © ed_phillips · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © saturnindi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Татьяна · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 8385 GL Vledderveen, Netherlands:© Russ Hedley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Kloosterlaan, Huissen, Gelderland, NL:© xannescholten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Doorwerth, Netherlands:© Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 8HX2+7V Eendenvlak, 2114 Bentveld, Netherlands:© shaunplumtree · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Oude Dwingelerdijk, Ansen, Drenthe, NL:© Evdm · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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 230 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #44 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 16,866 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hawthorn Shield Bug
- Nederlands
- Meidoornkielwants
- scientific name
- Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Acanthosomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 230
- sightings in Europe
- 15,766
- sightings worldwide
- 16,866
- GBIF records in NL
- 12,819
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Acanthosomatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 51149, Wikidata Q1077448, GBIF 5866246, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.