#3910 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Bosringvleugel
Epiphragma ocellare
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Epiphragma ocellare is a species of fly in the family Limoniidae. 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 33 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,748 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Bosringvleugel
- scientific name
- Epiphragma ocellare
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Limoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 33
- sightings in Europe
- 1,054
- sightings worldwide
- 1,748
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,090
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
relatives· Limoniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 357312, Wikidata Q2685650, GBIF 1515437, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.