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four-spotted plant bug

🇳🇱 Gele viervlekwants ·Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
four-spotted plant bug, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Jörg Pageler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

De gele viervlekwants ( Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus ) is een wants uit de familie van de blindwantsen (Miridae). De soort werd het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Charles De Geer in 1773.

base stats

  • NL sightings 158iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 3,276iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 158 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 3,276 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
four-spotted plant bug
Nederlands
Gele viervlekwants
scientific name
Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus
class
Insecta
order
Hemiptera
family
Miridae
sightings in NL
158
sightings in Europe
2,990
sightings worldwide
3,276
GBIF records in NL
8,383
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Miridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 194642, Wikidata Q10477204, GBIF 4487956, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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