#3901 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Smoky-winged Woodlouse Fly
🇳🇱 Zwarte pissebedvlieg ·Melanophora roralis
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Kasteelruïne, Valkenburg, Limburg, NL
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 9351 Leek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Joe Bartok · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Kasteelruïne, Valkenburg, Limburg, NL:© Quirijn V · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 9351 Leek, Nederland:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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.
- 3,125 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Smoky-winged Woodlouse Fly
- Nederlands
- Zwarte pissebedvlieg
- scientific name
- Melanophora roralis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Rhinophoridae
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 412
- sightings worldwide
- 3,125
- GBIF records in NL
- 131
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Rhinophoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 342608, Wikidata Q14086865, GBIF 1555470, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.