#4147 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Four-spotted antlion
🇳🇱 Langvoelermierenleeuw ·Distoleon tetragrammicus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Primorsko-Goranska, HR
📍 Донецкая область, Украина
📍 Варна, Болгария
📍 Romania
📍 Avenue de l'Hers, Baziège, Occitanie, FR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Roman · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Rui Santos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Philippe Geniez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Primorsko-Goranska, HR:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Донецкая область, Украина:© Илья Оголь · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Варна, Болгария:© victorsh · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Romania:© Sailfin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Avenue de l'Hers, Baziège, Occitanie, FR:© Jory Fuser · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Distoleon tetragrammicus is a species of antlion in the subfamily Myrmeleontinae.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,461 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798 (228 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Four-spotted antlion
- Nederlands
- Langvoelermierenleeuw
- scientific name
- Distoleon tetragrammicus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Neuroptera
- family
- Myrmeleontidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 6,782
- sightings worldwide
- 7,461
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1798 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Myrmeleontidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 119248, Wikidata Q1654260, GBIF 2098131, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.