#3610 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Large Rose Sawfly
🇳🇱 Rozenbladwesp ·Arge pagana
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland
📍 Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland
📍 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
📍 Lexmond, Lexmond, Zuid-Holland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Didier-35 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Bernard Noguès · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © 彭啟賢 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Lexmond, Lexmond, Zuid-Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Arge pagana is a sawfly in the family Argidae.
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 29 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,438 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1798 (228 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Large Rose Sawfly
- Nederlands
- Rozenbladwesp
- scientific name
- Arge pagana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Argidae
- sightings in NL
- 29
- sightings in Europe
- 3,061
- sightings worldwide
- 4,438
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,057
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1798 by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
relatives· Argidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 129422, Wikidata Q2070737, GBIF 6096917, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.