#4159 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Semipunctated Shield Bug

Graphosoma semipunctatum

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Simon Grove · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
3. © Jose Guillen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
5. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
6. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
7. Коктебель:© Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Lasithi Plateau, Crete, Greece:© Steve Daniels · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Italy:© Jade Bessi · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Gračac, Croatia:© Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Graphosoma semipunctatum is a species of true bug living exclusively in the Mediterranean region. The form living on the island of Crete has sometimes been given the name G. creticum .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,318iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,318 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).