#4011 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Juniper Shield Bug
🇳🇱 Jeneverbeskielwants ·Cyphostethus tristriatus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Johan Ellenbergerstraat, Groningen, Groningen, NL
📍 Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
📍 Meppel, Nederland
📍 Fazantenlaantje, Rotterdam, South Holland, NL
📍 Herewegwijk en Helpman, Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Menneweg, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Olli Pihlajamaa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Johan Ellenbergerstraat, Groningen, Groningen, NL:© marijkepostvds · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Meppel, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Fazantenlaantje, Rotterdam, South Holland, NL:© bulgogibo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Herewegwijk en Helpman, Groningen, Netherlands:© Rainer Breitling · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Menneweg, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, NL:© wandeltantes · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
5 mm) green shield bug with distinctive pinkish-red markings on the corium.
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 118 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,337 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Franz Xaver Fieber in 1860 (166 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Juniper Shield Bug
- Nederlands
- Jeneverbeskielwants
- scientific name
- Cyphostethus tristriatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Acanthosomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 118
- sightings in Europe
- 2,990
- sightings worldwide
- 3,337
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,010
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1860 by Franz Xaver Fieber
relatives· Acanthosomatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 318506, Wikidata Q1009962, GBIF 6096805, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.