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title: "Rustic Sailor Beetle"
description: "Cantharis rustica — Insecten en spinnen. Cantharis rustica, the rustic sailor beetle, is a species of soldier beetle found from Europe to Central Russia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/rustic-sailor-beetle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rustic Sailor Beetle

> Cantharis rustica — Insecten en spinnen. Cantharis rustica, the rustic sailor beetle, is a species of soldier beetle found from Europe to Central Russia.

- Scientific name: *Cantharis rustica*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 23030
- Wikidata: [Q839689](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q839689)
- iNaturalist taxon: [337544](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/337544)

## Names

- en: Rustic Sailor Beetle
- de: Soldatenkäfer
- fr: Cantharide rustique
- pl: Omomiłek wiejski

## Countries with the most observations

GB (4093), DE (2775), FR (2569), AT (2183), RU (1815), CZ (1206), UA (976), PL (797), FI (648), CH (566), IT (463), HU (356)

## Summary

Cantharis rustica, the rustic sailor beetle, is a species of soldier beetle found from Europe to Central Russia.

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

## Photo

![Rustic Sailor Beetle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rustic-sailor-beetle/medium.jpg)

Photo: ivan_humljani · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27032039

## Machine access

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