#4129 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Praalridderwants
Melanocoryphus albomaculatus
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what is it?
Melanocoryphus albomaculatus is a species of insects of the sub-order Heteroptera (true bugs), family Lygaeidae, sub-family Lygaeinae.
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 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,239 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Praalridderwants
- scientific name
- Melanocoryphus albomaculatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Lygaeidae
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 4,974
- sightings worldwide
- 5,239
- GBIF records in NL
- 31
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Johann August Ephraim Goeze
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205244, Wikidata Q11777030, GBIF 4486289, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.