#3840 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Sixspot Cranefly
🇳🇱 Tuindriestreep ·Limonia nubeculosa
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Sylvain G · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © zimmwisdom · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Yiannis Banakakis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © bitsnbirds · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Trevor Van Loon · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © John Lyden · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Limonia nubeculosa , also known as the short-palped cranefly , is a species of crane fly in the family of Limoniidae....
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 77 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,743 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen in 1804 (222 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Sixspot Cranefly
- Nederlands
- Tuindriestreep
- scientific name
- Limonia nubeculosa
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Limoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 77
- sightings in Europe
- 2,362
- sightings worldwide
- 4,743
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,141
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1804 by Johann Wilhelm Meigen
relatives· Limoniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 223780, Wikidata Q141062, GBIF 4519121, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.