#3540 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Yellow-spotted Macrophya
Macrophya montana
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Lindenholt, Nimwegen, Gelderland, NL
📍 9742 PX Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 De Riethoek, Unnamed Road, Amsterdam, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Bernard Noguès · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Olli Pihlajamaa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Eric Toro Delgado · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © cryptomys · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Lindenholt, Nimwegen, Gelderland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 9742 PX Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. De Riethoek, Unnamed Road, Amsterdam, Nederland:© Ron Rave · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Macrophya montana is a sawfly (order Hymenoptera, family Tenthredinidae)....
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 135 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #38 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
- 5,533 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-spotted Macrophya
- scientific name
- Macrophya montana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Tenthredinidae
- sightings in NL
- 135
- sightings in Europe
- 4,932
- sightings worldwide
- 5,533
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,862
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Tenthredinidae
#3521 📷 7Turnip Sawfly
🇳🇱 Knollenbladwesp
Athalia rosae
👀 264 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
#3578 📷 10Plantain Wasp-sawfly
Tenthredo omissa
👀 47 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 320947, Wikidata Q476827, GBIF 4490468, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.