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title: "Zestienpuntlieveheersbeestje"
description: "Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata — Insecten en spinnen. Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata is a species of beetle in the family Coccinellidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/16-spot-ladybird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zestienpuntlieveheersbeestje

> Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata — Insecten en spinnen. Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata is a species of beetle in the family Coccinellidae.

- Scientific name: *Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden)
- iNaturalist observations: 9439
- Wikidata: [Q176338](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176338)
- iNaturalist taxon: [131985](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/131985)

## Names

- en: 16-spot Ladybird
- de: Sechzehnpunkt-Marienkäfer
- es: Catarina Dorada
- fr: Coccinelle à seize points
- nl: Zestienpuntlieveheersbeestje

## Countries with the most observations

GB (2234), FR (1636), DE (1494), NL (372), BE (362), PT (326), DK (311), ES (306), AT (293), CZ (272), PL (252), RU (233)

## Summary

Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata is a species of beetle in the family Coccinellidae. Its common English name is the sixteen-spot ladybird. It is found in the Palearctic  - Europe, North Africa,   European Russia, the Caucasus,  Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Transcaucasia, Northern Kazakhstan, Western Asia and  Northwest China. 
It is an inhabitant of the grass layer occurring on dunes, inland dunes, sandy shores and bodden, in Eurasian steppe or on wastelands and  dry meadows and occasionally in marshy meadows. It  is  recorded as feeding on aphids but also  on Pucciniales and powdery mildew, on the pollen on Gramineae, Compositae…

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

## Photo

![Zestienpuntlieveheersbeestje](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/16-spot-ladybird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ruebezahl · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/249517725

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/16-spot-ladybird?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).