#4101 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Eastern Sycamore Lace Bug
🇳🇱 Plataannetwants ·Corythucha ciliata
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Corythucha ciliata , the sycamore lace bug , is a species of lace bug in the family Tingidae that is associated with sycamore trees.
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 20 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 9,567 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1832 (194 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Eastern Sycamore Lace Bug
- Nederlands
- Plataannetwants
- scientific name
- Corythucha ciliata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Tingidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 20
- sightings in Europe
- 6,372
- sightings worldwide
- 9,567
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,020
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1832 by Thomas Say
relatives· Tingidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 333813, Wikidata Q2032177, GBIF 2020655, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.