#3900 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Notch-horned Cleg
🇳🇱 Gewone regendaas ·Haematopota pluvialis
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Kampersweg, Ospel, Limburg, NL
📍 7218 PA Almen, Nederland
📍 Udenhout, North Brabant, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Janet Graham · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © william van Niekerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Dina Nesterkova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Chris Moody · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jere Kahanpää · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Kampersweg, Ospel, Limburg, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 7218 PA Almen, Nederland:© levi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Udenhout, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Haematopota pluvialis , the Common Horse Fly or 'Notch-horned Cleg Fly', is a species belonging to the family Tabanidae subfamily Tabaninae.
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 35 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,537 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Notch-horned Cleg
- Nederlands
- Gewone regendaas
- scientific name
- Haematopota pluvialis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tabanidae
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 1,166
- sightings worldwide
- 5,537
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,677
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tabanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130395, Wikidata Q939493, GBIF 1495562, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.