#3907 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Grote sponsmug
Demeijerea rufipes
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 De Stek, Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland, NL
📍 1325 Almere, Nederland
📍 9717 ED Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nils-Uno Svensson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Pentti Ketola · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Сергей Квашнин · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Pentti Ketola · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. De Stek, Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland, NL:© jaaph · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 1325 Almere, Nederland:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. 9717 ED Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Netherlands:© Bo · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Demeijerea rufipes is een muggensoort uit de familie van de dansmuggen (Chironomidae). De wetenschappelijke naam is gepubliceerd in 1761 door Linnaeus.
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 34 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 160 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Grote sponsmug
- scientific name
- Demeijerea rufipes
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Chironomidae
- sightings in NL
- 34
- sightings in Europe
- 141
- sightings worldwide
- 160
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,613
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Chironomidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 924531, Wikidata Q13849053, GBIF 1446800, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.