#3579 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Common Green-Tenthredo
Tenthredo mesomela
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Tenthredo mesomela is a sawfly species of the family Tenthredinidae (common sawflies), subfamily Tenthredininae.
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 45 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,182 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Green-Tenthredo
- scientific name
- Tenthredo mesomela
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Tenthredinidae
- sightings in NL
- 45
- sightings in Europe
- 1,452
- sightings worldwide
- 2,182
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,600
- 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 357319, Wikidata Q14582833, GBIF 4490553, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.