#4134 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Indian Milkweed Bug
🇳🇱 Pandoerridderwants ·Spilostethus pandurus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Spilostethus pandurus is a species of "seed bugs" belonging to the family Lygaeidae, subfamily 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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 15,994 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Indian Milkweed Bug
- Nederlands
- Pandoerridderwants
- scientific name
- Spilostethus pandurus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Lygaeidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 10,252
- sightings worldwide
- 15,994
- GBIF records in NL
- 10
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Lygaeidae
#3975 📷 8Birch Catkin Bug
🇳🇱 Berkensmalsnuit
Kleidocerys resedae
👀 268 in NL
#4054 📷 10Elm Seed Bug
🇳🇱 Iepenridderwants
Arocatus melanocephalus
👀 60 in NL
#4120 📷 10Rotsridderwants
Spilostethus saxatilis
👀 2 in NL
#4128 📷 7Black-and-Red Bug
🇳🇱 Prachtridderwants
Lygaeus equestris
👀 1 in NL
#4129 📷 8Praalridderwants
Melanocoryphus albomaculatus
👀 1 in NL
#4164 📷 9Large Milkweed Bug
Oncopeltus fasciatus
🌍 96.6k seen
#4175 📷 8Small Milkweed Bug
Lygaeus kalmii
🌍 42.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130079, Wikidata Q148953, GBIF 4486330, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.