#3825 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Banded house mosquito
🇳🇱 Grote steekmug ·Culiseta annulata
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Asmansweg 16, 2571 BK Den Haag, Nederland
📍 Gouda
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland
📍 Noord-Brabant, NL
📍 Heemskerklaan, Velp, Gelderland, NL
📍 Helmond-West, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Иван Матершев · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Asmansweg 16, 2571 BK Den Haag, Nederland:© marcelpolling · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Gouda:© darthwabbitt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Noord-Brabant, NL:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Heemskerklaan, Velp, Gelderland, NL:© Gideon van Melle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Helmond-West, Netherlands:© Shape of Friend · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Culiseta annulata is a species of mosquito in the family Culicidae. It is found in the Palearctic ....
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 93 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,073 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1776 (250 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Banded house mosquito
- Nederlands
- Grote steekmug
- scientific name
- Culiseta annulata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Culicidae
- sightings in NL
- 93
- sightings in Europe
- 1,399
- sightings worldwide
- 3,073
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,364
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1776 by Franz von Paula Schrank
relatives· Culicidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 155395, Wikidata Q2153608, GBIF 1649565, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.