#4065 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Hazel bug

🇳🇱 Stippelblindwants ·Pantilius tunicatus

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
2. © Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Pentti Ketola · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Harald Schnöde (Schnde) · CC0
6. © Ricardo Ferreiro Sanjurjo · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 9351 JR Leek, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Groenedijk, Slochteren, Groningen, NL:© jwcopper · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 3208 KJ Spijkenisse, Nederland:© naturalistboy · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Arrien, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pantilius tunicatus is a species of bug in Miridae family that could be found in the Baltic states, Faroe Islands, Finland, Italy, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Eastern, Central, and Western Europe (except for Portugal). The species feed on hazel and usually are found on the lowest branches of it. The adults have a brown pronotum and green legs, with the antennae that is shorted then the body. The species doesn't appear until September.

base stats

NL sightings 46iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,977iNaturalist observations

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).