#3781 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Bathroom Moth Fly
🇳🇱 Witgepunte clogmia ·Clogmia albipunctata
📍 1118 BJ Flughafen Amsterdam Schiphol, Niederlande
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Zuid-Holland, Nederland
📍 Netherlands
📍 Hoogerheide
📍 Drachten, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sakern | 永隔一江水 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Trey Wardlaw · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. 1118 BJ Flughafen Amsterdam Schiphol, Niederlande:© Milan Pestalozzi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Netherlands:© pistoolkreeftje · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Hoogerheide:© natural-dogs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Drachten, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Drain flies , sink flies , filter flies , or sewer gnats ( Psychodidae ) are small true flies (Diptera) with short, hairy bodies and wings giving them a "furry" moth-like appearance, hence one of their common names, moth flies . There are more than 4,700 known species worldwide, most of them native to the humid tropics. This makes them one of the most diverse families of their order. Drain flies sometimes inhabit plumbing drains and sewage systems, where they are a...
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 237 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #30 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
- 49,850 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1893 (133 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bathroom Moth Fly
- Nederlands
- Witgepunte clogmia
- scientific name
- Clogmia albipunctata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Psychodidae
- sightings in NL
- 237
- sightings in Europe
- 8,228
- sightings worldwide
- 49,850
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1893 by Samuel Wendell Williston
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 258813, Wikidata Q3983062, GBIF 1640760, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.