#3976 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Parent Bug
🇳🇱 Gewone kielwants ·Elasmucha grisea
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Elasmucha grisea , common name parent bug , is a species of shield bugs or stink bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae. The term parent bugs includes also the other species of the genus Elasmucha and some species of the family Acanthosomatidae.
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 268 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #35 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 9,914 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Parent Bug
- Nederlands
- Gewone kielwants
- scientific name
- Elasmucha grisea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Acanthosomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 268
- sightings in Europe
- 8,882
- sightings worldwide
- 9,914
- GBIF records in NL
- 16,060
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Acanthosomatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 334551, Wikidata Q778700, GBIF 4485987, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.