#3552 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Common Sedge-sawfly

Selandria serva

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Patrick Le Mao · CC0
2. © Marcel Nadal · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Gelderland, NL:© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Warten, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Amsterdamse Bos, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, NL:© hdreko · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Oranjebuurt, Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Selandria serva is a Palearctic species of sawfly.

base stats

NL sightings 93iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,798iNaturalist observations

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 93 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #50 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
1,798 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793 (233 years ago).