#4077 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
spotted plant bug
🇳🇱 Bruine prachtblindwants ·Closterotomus fulvomaculatus
📍 De Geelders, Boxtel, North Brabant, NL
📍 Epe, Netherlands
📍 6708 BR Wageningen, Netherlands
📍 6325 Berg en Terblijt, Nederland
📍 Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Peter Preus · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Konrad Zobel · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Olli Pihlajamaa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. De Geelders, Boxtel, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Epe, Netherlands:© marcel_deventer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 6708 BR Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. 6325 Berg en Terblijt, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Closterotomus fulvomaculatus is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.
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 36 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,816 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles De Geer in 1773 (253 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- spotted plant bug
- Nederlands
- Bruine prachtblindwants
- scientific name
- Closterotomus fulvomaculatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Miridae
- sightings in NL
- 36
- sightings in Europe
- 1,682
- sightings worldwide
- 2,816
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,854
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1773 by Charles De Geer
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 453829, Wikidata Q10455496, GBIF 4487578, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.