#4106 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Rambur's pied shieldbug
🇳🇱 Ballotegraafwants ·Tritomegas sexmaculatus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, IT
📍 Bekesbourne Street, London, England, GB
📍 England, GB
📍 New Romney, UK
📍 Essling, 1220 Wien, Österreich
📍 Ramsgate CT11, UK
📍 Бердичів, Житомирська область, Україна, 13300
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Markus Krieger · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Pavel Kacl · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, IT:© Valentina · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Bekesbourne Street, London, England, GB:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 6. England, GB:© John P · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. New Romney, UK:© Jacques Turner-Moss · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Essling, 1220 Wien, Österreich:© danielaio · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Ramsgate CT11, UK:© Aaron Chidwick · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Бердичів, Житомирська область, Україна, 13300:© yard_ua · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Tritomegas sexmaculatus is a shield bug from the genus Tritomegas , which has length of 6–8 mm.
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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,514 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Rambur's pied shieldbug
- Nederlands
- Ballotegraafwants
- scientific name
- Tritomegas sexmaculatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Sehiridae
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 3,301
- sightings worldwide
- 3,514
- GBIF records in NL
- 286
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Sehiridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 57842, Wikidata Q17326640, GBIF 5758809, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.