#3963 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Ant Damselbug
🇳🇱 Miersikkelwants ·Himacerus mirmicoides
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Hoekenes 59
📍 Burgsteeg, Leiden, South Holland, NL
📍 9406 KL Assen, Nederland
📍 Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © beetledavid · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Benoît Segerer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © giorgi_iankoshvili · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © rober025 · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Иван Матершев · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Hoekenes 59:© Timo Slinger · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Burgsteeg, Leiden, South Holland, NL:© Corona Mallory · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 9406 KL Assen, Nederland:© Patrick Koster · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Himacerus mirmicoides , common name ant damsel bug , is a species of damsel bugs belonging to the family Nabidae, subfamily Nabinae.
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 358 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #22 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 9,179 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Oronzio Gabriele Costa in 1834 (192 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Ant Damselbug
- Nederlands
- Miersikkelwants
- scientific name
- Himacerus mirmicoides
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Nabidae
- sightings in NL
- 358
- sightings in Europe
- 8,659
- sightings worldwide
- 9,179
- GBIF records in NL
- 15,891
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1834 by Oronzio Gabriele Costa
relatives· Nabidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130127, Wikidata Q1618973, GBIF 4487069, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.