#3571 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Bramble Sawfly
Arge cyanocrocea
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Noord Tilburg, Tilburg, Nederland
📍 9466 Gasteren, Nederland
📍 De Riethoek, Unnamed Road, Amsterdam, Nederland
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
📍 5813 Ysselsteyn, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Benoit NABHOLZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Walwyn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Noord Tilburg, Tilburg, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 9466 Gasteren, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. De Riethoek, Unnamed Road, Amsterdam, Nederland:© Ron Rave · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 5813 Ysselsteyn, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Arge cyanocrocea , the bramble sawfly , is a species of sawflies belonging to the family Argidae subfamily Arginae....
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 60 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,257 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1771 (255 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bramble Sawfly
- scientific name
- Arge cyanocrocea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Argidae
- sightings in NL
- 60
- sightings in Europe
- 2,664
- sightings worldwide
- 3,257
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,319
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1771 by Johann Reinhold Forster
relatives· Argidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 333679, Wikidata Q2860903, GBIF 5868173, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.