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title: "Escarabajo de la nariz sangrante"
description: "Timarcha tenebricosa — Insectos y arañas. The bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa), also called blood spewer or blood-spewing beetle, is a leaf beetle native to Europe."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/bloody-nosed-beetle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Escarabajo de la nariz sangrante

> Timarcha tenebricosa — Insectos y arañas. The bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa), also called blood spewer or blood-spewing beetle, is a leaf beetle native to Europe.

- Scientific name: *Timarcha tenebricosa*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 10403
- Wikidata: [Q1310666](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1310666)
- iNaturalist taxon: [118838](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/118838)

## Names

- en: Bloody-nosed Beetle
- de: Tatzenkäfer
- es: Escarabajo de la nariz sangrante
- fr: Timarque Crache-Sang
- nl: Reuzenbladhaan

## Countries with the most observations

GB (3062), FR (2792), DE (703), CH (146), LU (77), IT (72), ES (70), BE (57), AT (41), RU (35), RS (26), UA (26)

## Summary

The bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa), also called blood spewer or blood-spewing beetle, is a leaf beetle native to Europe.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody-nosed_beetle

## Photo

![Escarabajo de la nariz sangrante](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bloody-nosed-beetle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Cristina Hutchison · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322268884

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bloody-nosed-beetle?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).