#3767 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Grote dansvlieg
Empis tessellata
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Empis tessellata is a species of dance fly, in the fly family Empididae.
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 486 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #16 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
- 11,978 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794 (232 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Grote dansvlieg
- scientific name
- Empis tessellata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Empididae
- sightings in NL
- 486
- sightings in Europe
- 3,007
- sightings worldwide
- 11,978
- GBIF records in NL
- 30,610
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1794 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Empididae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 461172, Wikidata Q2469727, GBIF 1583544, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.