#3946 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Mottled Stink Bug

🇳🇱 Grauwe Veldwants ·Rhaphigaster nebulosa

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Thorsten Usée · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Jofre · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Anita Sprungk · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 2036 GP Haarlem, Netherlands:© tracad · CC BY 4.0
8. 's-Graveland, North Holland, NL:© Steven Schulting · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Noord Tilburg, Tilburg, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 6525 EC Nijmegen, Nederland:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Rhaphigaster nebulosa , common name Mottled Shieldbug , is a species of stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae. It is the only species of the genus Rhaphigaster .

base stats

NL sightings 1,388iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 25,565iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 1,388 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #5 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
25,565 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus in 1761 (265 years ago).