#4093 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Forget-me-not Shieldbug
🇳🇱 Vergeet-mij-nietgraafwants ·Sehirus luctuosus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Julien Preud'homme · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © André MIQUET · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Jerry Lanfear · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Experience Matters · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Lupoli Roland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Sehirus luctuosus , the Forget-me-not Bug, is a burrowing shieldbug belonging to the family Cydnidae. In Central Europe it is widespread and not uncommon. They are found in the Alps on sunny slopes up to almost 2000 meters above sea level.
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 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 850 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Forget-me-not Shieldbug
- Nederlands
- Vergeet-mij-nietgraafwants
- scientific name
- Sehirus luctuosus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Sehiridae
- sightings in NL
- 30
- sightings in Europe
- 538
- sightings worldwide
- 850
- GBIF records in NL
- 255
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Sehiridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 551076, Wikidata Q10585726, GBIF 4486163, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.