#4157 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Black burrowing bug
🇳🇱 Wolfsmelkgraafwants ·Cydnus aterrimus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Barrancos, 7230, Portugal
📍 Acre, Israel
📍 45111 Cobisa, Toledo, España
📍 City of Cape Town, ZA-WC, ZA
📍 38835 Bühne, Deutschland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Boris Loboda · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Boris Loboda · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Eridan Xharahi · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © qflieger · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Barrancos, 7230, Portugal:© Axel Gosseries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Acre, Israel:© E. Raven Teva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 45111 Cobisa, Toledo, España:© miguel angel contreras rosino · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. City of Cape Town, ZA-WC, ZA:© Mustapha · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 38835 Bühne, Deutschland:© ceffx · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cydnus aterrimus is a species of burrowing bug in the family Cydnidae. It is found in the Caribbean, Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, and Southern 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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,747 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Black burrowing bug
- Nederlands
- Wolfsmelkgraafwants
- scientific name
- Cydnus aterrimus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cydnidae
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,017
- sightings worldwide
- 4,747
- GBIF records in NL
- 58
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 363434, Wikidata Q10464319, GBIF 2078815, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.