#3994 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Tortoise Bug
🇳🇱 Gewone pantserwants ·Eurygaster testudinaria
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 7161 Neede, Nederland
📍 Nijmegen, Huygensgebouw, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
📍 Earnewâld, Nederland
📍 5223 DC 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
📍 Voorschoten, Nederland
📍 Santpoort-Noord, Netherlands
📍 6525 XZ Nijmegen, Netherlands
📍 Soest, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 3. 7161 Neede, Nederland:© Bas van Hulst-Kuiper · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Nijmegen, Huygensgebouw, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Earnewâld, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 5223 DC 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands:© Daniel Onneweer · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Voorschoten, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Santpoort-Noord, Netherlands:© Sonja Bouwman-Gringhuis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 6525 XZ Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Soest, Netherlands:© Sonja Bouwman-Gringhuis · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Eurygaster testudinaria is a Palearctic shieldbug . It occurs in Europe from the Northern Mediterranean to southern Scandinavia, and East through Central Asia to northern China and Japan.
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 165 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,456 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1785 (241 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tortoise Bug
- Nederlands
- Gewone pantserwants
- scientific name
- Eurygaster testudinaria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Scutelleridae
- sightings in NL
- 165
- sightings in Europe
- 6,984
- sightings worldwide
- 8,456
- GBIF records in NL
- 11,251
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1785 by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
relatives· Scutelleridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 504466, Wikidata Q1130881, GBIF 5758794, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.