#3870 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Celery Fly
🇳🇱 Grote schermbloemboorvlieg ·Euleia heraclei
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- 10. © Nils-Uno Svensson · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Euleia heraclei , known as the celery fly or the hogweed picture-wing fly is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Euleia of the family Tephritidae.
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 48 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,570 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Celery Fly
- Nederlands
- Grote schermbloemboorvlieg
- scientific name
- Euleia heraclei
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tephritidae
- sightings in NL
- 48
- sightings in Europe
- 1,127
- sightings worldwide
- 1,570
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,084
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tephritidae
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Anomoia purmunda
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🇳🇱 Akkerdistelgalboorvlieg
Urophora cardui
👀 62 in NL
#3860 📷 8Mottled Thistle Fly
🇳🇱 Akkerdistelboorvlieg
Xyphosia miliaria
👀 53 in NL
#3874 📷 10Banded Burdock Fly
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Terellia tussilaginis
👀 46 in NL
#3895 📷 10Ragwort Fly
🇳🇱 Gebandeerde kruiskruidboorvlieg
Sphenella marginata
👀 37 in NL
#3913 📷 10Walnut Husk Fly
🇳🇱 Walnootboorvlieg
Rhagoletis completa
👀 32 in NL
#3915 📷 10Biggenkruidboorvlieg
Tephritis vespertina
👀 32 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 466780, Wikidata Q141334, GBIF 1623571, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.