#4045 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
saucer bug
🇳🇱 Platte waterwants ·Ilyocoris cimicoides
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Drenthe, Netherlands
📍 Meppel, Nederland
📍 Scheilaan, Castricum, Noord-Holland, NL
📍 1382 JL Weesp, Nederland
📍 Schinveld, Nederland
📍 8316 Marknesse, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © s_nowosad · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Drenthe, Netherlands:© Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Meppel, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Scheilaan, Castricum, Noord-Holland, NL:© wishauptr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 1382 JL Weesp, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Schinveld, Nederland:© Co Waalen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 8316 Marknesse, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
De zwemwants ( Ilyocoris cimicoides ) is een insect uit de familie zwemwantsen (Naucoridae). Omdat de oude wetenschappelijke geslachtsnaam vroeger Naucoris was, duikt deze nog weleens op in de literatuur.
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 65 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,801 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- saucer bug
- Nederlands
- Platte waterwants
- scientific name
- Ilyocoris cimicoides
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Naucoridae
- sightings in NL
- 65
- sightings in Europe
- 1,630
- sightings worldwide
- 1,801
- GBIF records in NL
- 12,969
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 358327, Wikidata Q747337, GBIF 4485505, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.