#3862 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Moerasdriestip
Limonia phragmitidis
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
It is found in a wide range of habitats and micro habitats: in earth rich in humus, in swamps and marshes, in leaf litter and in wet spots in woods.
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 51 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,197 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1781 (245 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Moerasdriestip
- scientific name
- Limonia phragmitidis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Limoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 51
- sightings in Europe
- 1,338
- sightings worldwide
- 2,197
- GBIF records in NL
- 565
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1781 by Franz von Paula Schrank
relatives· Limoniidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 508460, Wikidata Q3213784, GBIF 4519122, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.