#4048 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
coastal groundbug
🇳🇱 Bonte zandrookwants ·Beosus maritimus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Beosus maritimus is a species of dirt-colored seed bug in the family Rhyparochromidae, found mainly in Europe and western Asia.
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 64 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,935 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- coastal groundbug
- Nederlands
- Bonte zandrookwants
- scientific name
- Beosus maritimus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Rhyparochromidae
- sightings in NL
- 64
- sightings in Europe
- 3,490
- sightings worldwide
- 3,935
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,513
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Rhyparochromidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 448027, Wikidata Q9168941, GBIF 4486469, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.