#3776 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Stripe-legged Robber Fly
🇳🇱 Gewone bladjager ·Dioctria hyalipennis
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 Verlengde Paltzerweg, Soest, Utrecht, NL
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © eebee · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Frederic Desmeules · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © bob15noble · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © matthew_wills · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Verlengde Paltzerweg, Soest, Utrecht, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Dioctria hyalipennis is a Holarctic species of robber fly in the family Asilidae.
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 298 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #25 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
- 12,218 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Stripe-legged Robber Fly
- Nederlands
- Gewone bladjager
- scientific name
- Dioctria hyalipennis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Asilidae
- sightings in NL
- 298
- sightings in Europe
- 3,400
- sightings worldwide
- 12,218
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Asilidae
#3779 📷 10Common Awl Robber Fly
🇳🇱 Bosrandroofvlieg
Neoitamus cyanurus
👀 242 in NL
#3800 📷 10Dune Robber Fly
🇳🇱 Zandroofvlieg
Philonicus albiceps
👀 148 in NL
#3804 📷 10kite-tailed robberfly
🇳🇱 Gewone roofvlieg
Tolmerus atricapillus
👀 138 in NL
#3820 📷 10Roodbaardroofvlieg
Eutolmus rufibarbis
👀 99 in NL
#3826 📷 10bumblebee robberfly
🇳🇱 Gele hommelroofvlieg
Laphria flava
👀 90 in NL
#3835 📷 10fan-bristled robberfly
🇳🇱 Borstelroofvlieg
Dysmachus trigonus
👀 85 in NL
#3844 📷 7Hornet Robber Fly
🇳🇱 Hoornaarroofvlieg
Asilus crabroniformis
👀 70 in NL
#3864 📷 10Small Yellow-legged Robber Fly
🇳🇱 Bosgeelvlekbladjager
Dioctria linearis
👀 50 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 135239, Wikidata Q10755666, GBIF 1656365, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.