#3603 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
12-spot Strider
Macrophya duodecimpunctata
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Slagdijk, Havelte, Drenthe, NL
📍 Alkmaar, Nederland
📍 Stadscentrum, 3431 Nieuwegein, Nederland
📍 8014 JJ Zwolle, Nederland
📍 Nieuwe Niedorp, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Дмитрий Колеватов · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alexander Boldyrev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Alexander Boldyrev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Arūnas Juknevičius · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Slagdijk, Havelte, Drenthe, NL:© marcangel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Alkmaar, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Stadscentrum, 3431 Nieuwegein, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 8014 JJ Zwolle, Nederland:© Roelof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Nieuwe Niedorp, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Macrophya duodecimpunctata is a Palearctic species of sawfly.
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 34 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,130 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- 12-spot Strider
- scientific name
- Macrophya duodecimpunctata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Tenthredinidae
- sightings in NL
- 34
- sightings in Europe
- 932
- sightings worldwide
- 1,130
- GBIF records in NL
- 706
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tenthredinidae
#3521 📷 7Turnip Sawfly
🇳🇱 Knollenbladwesp
Athalia rosae
👀 264 in NL
#3540 📷 10Yellow-spotted Macrophya
Macrophya montana
👀 135 in NL
#3541 📷 10Solomon's-seal sawfly
🇳🇱 Salomonszegel bladwesp
Phymatocera aterrima
👀 131 in NL
#3544 📷 10Saddleback Grass-cutter
Eutomostethus ephippium
👀 120 in NL
#3548 📷 10Figwort sawfly
🇳🇱 Helmkruidbladwesp
Tenthredo scrophulariae
👀 105 in NL
#3552 📷 10Common Sedge-sawfly
Selandria serva
👀 93 in NL
#3566 📷 7Tenthredo campestris
Tenthredo campestris
👀 67 in NL
#3568 📷 10Willow Redgall Sawfly
🇳🇱 Gewone blaasbladwesp
Euura proxima
👀 64 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 497699, Wikidata Q14582775, GBIF 4490464, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.