#4071 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
European Tarnished Plant Bug
🇳🇱 Behaarde schaduwwants ·Lygus rugulipennis
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Drenthe, NL
📍 5855 Well, Nederland
📍 Vlashof, 5011 Tilburg, Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Doldersum, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © zmrdk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Peter Hillman · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Drenthe, NL:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 5855 Well, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Vlashof, 5011 Tilburg, Netherlands:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Paul Venderbosch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Doldersum, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Lygus rugulipennis , common name European Tarnished Plant Bug , is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae.
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 39 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,391 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Karl Alfred Poppius in 1911 (115 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- European Tarnished Plant Bug
- Nederlands
- Behaarde schaduwwants
- scientific name
- Lygus rugulipennis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Miridae
- sightings in NL
- 39
- sightings in Europe
- 1,742
- sightings worldwide
- 5,391
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,750
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1911 by Karl Alfred Poppius
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 327194, Wikidata Q10571523, GBIF 2010575, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.