#3956 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Box Bug
🇳🇱 Smalle randwants ·Gonocerus acuteangulatus
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- 1. © Quentin Gaillard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- 8. © Ricarda Bergen · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 10. © Florence Matutini · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Gonocerus acuteangulatus is a herbivorous species of true bug in the family Coreidae. It is commonly known as the box bug in the UK as it once only occurred in Box Hill in Surrey where it fed on box trees. It is a medium-sized speckled reddish-brown insect, between 11 and 14 mm long as an adult, with a slightly expanded abdomen. It commonly occurs throughout the Mediterranean region and extends to Central Asia and parts of northwestern...
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 519 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #15 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 14,273 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Box Bug
- Nederlands
- Smalle randwants
- scientific name
- Gonocerus acuteangulatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Coreidae
- sightings in NL
- 519
- sightings in Europe
- 12,219
- sightings worldwide
- 14,273
- GBIF records in NL
- 32,609
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Johann August Ephraim Goeze
relatives· Coreidae
#3944 📷 10Dock Bug
🇳🇱 Zuringrandwants
Coreus marginatus
👀 1.5k in NL
#3949 📷 9Western Conifer Seed Bug
🇳🇱 Bladpootrandwants
Leptoglossus occidentalis
👀 1k in NL
#4040 📷 10Rhombic Leatherbug
🇳🇱 Ruitrandwants
Syromastus rhombeus
👀 68 in NL
#4172 📷 8Acanthocephala terminalis
Acanthocephala terminalis
🌍 53.4k seen
#4184 📷 7Eastern Leaf-footed Bug
Leptoglossus phyllopus
🌍 27.8k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 204781, Wikidata Q3110569, GBIF 4390084, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.