#3813 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Minettia longipennis
Minettia longipennis
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 6744 WN Ederveen, Nederland
📍 Amsterdam, NL-NH, NL
📍 Noordwijk, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek
📍 Enschede-Noord, Enschede, Nederland
📍 6681 Bemmel, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. 6744 WN Ederveen, Nederland:© Benno · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Amsterdam, NL-NH, NL:© Stan van Remmerden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Groesbeek:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Enschede-Noord, Enschede, Nederland:© Bas van Hulst-Kuiper · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 6681 Bemmel, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Minettia longipennis is a species of fly in the family Lauxaniidae. It is found in the Palearctic ....
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 113 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,844 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794 (232 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Minettia longipennis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Lauxaniidae
- sightings in NL
- 113
- sightings in Europe
- 1,084
- sightings worldwide
- 3,844
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,740
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1794 by Johan Christian Fabricius
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 356403, Wikidata Q14046669, GBIF 1570091, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.