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#4135 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Red Shield Bug

Carpocoris mediterraneus

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Tapio Kujala · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © brunoparisotto · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Joey Bom · CC BY 4.0
  4. 4. © Joey Bom · CC BY 4.0
  5. 5. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Pedro Antonio Lázaro Molinero · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
  8. 8. © Alejandro Ocampo · CC BY-NC 4.0
  9. 9. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
Red Shield Bug, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Tapio Kujala · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Carpocoris mediterraneus , the Red shield bug , is a species of shield bug in the Pentatomidae family....

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 14,524iNaturalist 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.
  • 14,524 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Red Shield Bug
scientific name
Carpocoris mediterraneus
class
Insecta
order
Hemiptera
family
Pentatomidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
12,258
sightings worldwide
14,524
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Pentatomidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 327154, Wikidata Q727797, GBIF 4485802, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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