#3950 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
European Striped Shield Bug
🇳🇱 Pyjamaschildwants ·Graphosoma italicum
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Adriano Losso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © André MIQUET · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Alejandro Ocampo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © jonatan_antunez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Alejandro Ocampo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © savo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Graphosoma lineatum is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is also known as the Italian striped bug and minstrel bug .
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 984 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #9 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 72,587 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- European Striped Shield Bug
- Nederlands
- Pyjamaschildwants
- scientific name
- Graphosoma italicum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Pentatomidae
- sightings in NL
- 984
- sightings in Europe
- 69,547
- sightings worldwide
- 72,587
- GBIF records in NL
- 39,021
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Otto Friedrich Müller
relatives· Pentatomidae
#3942 📷 9Green Shield Bug
🇳🇱 Groene schildwants
Palomena prasina
👀 3.1k in NL
#3946 📷 10Mottled Stink Bug
🇳🇱 Grauwe Veldwants
Rhaphigaster nebulosa
👀 1.4k in NL
#3948 📷 10Forest Bug
🇳🇱 Roodpootschildwants
Pentatoma rufipes
👀 1.1k in NL
#3951 📷 10Sloe Bug
🇳🇱 Bessenschildwants
Dolycoris baccarum
👀 918 in NL
#3964 📷 8Cabbage Bug
🇳🇱 Koolschildwants
Eurydema oleracea
👀 357 in NL
#3974 📷 10Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
🇳🇱 Bruingemarmerde schildwants
Halyomorpha halys
👀 276 in NL
#3977 📷 9Southern Green Stink Bug
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke groene schildwants
Nezara viridula
👀 265 in NL
#3988 📷 10Vernal Shield Bug
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke schildwants
Peribalus strictus
👀 205 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 84804, Wikidata Q56085742, GBIF 7437802, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.