#4055 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
short-winged rhopalid
🇳🇱 Kleine slanke glasvleugelwants ·Myrmus miriformis
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © lwtalp · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Zdeňka Nováková · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Anna Nikolenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
De kleine slanke glasvleugelwants ( Myrmus miriformis ) is een wants uit de familie glasvleugelwantsen (Rhopalidae). De soort werd voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1807.
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 60 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,098 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- short-winged rhopalid
- Nederlands
- Kleine slanke glasvleugelwants
- scientific name
- Myrmus miriformis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Rhopalidae
- sightings in NL
- 60
- sightings in Europe
- 1,768
- sightings worldwide
- 2,098
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,005
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Rhopalidae
#3984 📷 7Spotted Firebug
🇳🇱 Kaneelglasvleugelwants
Corizus hyoscyami
👀 237 in NL
#3990 📷 10hypericum rhopalid
🇳🇱 Geblokte glasvleugelwants
Rhopalus subrufus
👀 197 in NL
#4080 📷 10banded rhopalid
🇳🇱 Grijze glasvleugelwants
Stictopleurus punctatonervosus
👀 33 in NL
#4170 📷 10Eastern Boxelder Bug
🇳🇱 Boxelder bug
Boisea trivittata
🌍 61.6k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 557394, Wikidata Q10592593, GBIF 5733462, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.