#3819 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Mintho rufiventris
Mintho rufiventris
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Voerendaal, Netherlands
📍 Westerpark, 4814 Breda, Nederland
📍 Netherlands
📍 Klazienaveen
📍 Leyweg, The Hague, South Holland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Valter Jacinto · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Voerendaal, Netherlands:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Westerpark, 4814 Breda, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Netherlands:© Dirk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Klazienaveen:© ivarholdtman · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Leyweg, The Hague, South Holland, NL:© marcangel · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Mintho rufiventris is a European species of fly in the family Tachinidae.
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 103 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,248 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1817 (209 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Mintho rufiventris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tachinidae
- sightings in NL
- 103
- sightings in Europe
- 1,255
- sightings worldwide
- 2,248
- GBIF records in NL
- 804
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1817 by Carl Fredrik Fallén
relatives· Tachinidae
#3772 📷 8Common Tachinid
🇳🇱 Woeste sluipvlieg
Tachina fera
👀 362 in NL
#3798 📷 10Phasia aurigera
Phasia aurigera
👀 156 in NL
#3803 📷 10Red Spotted Parasite Fly
Eriothrix rufomaculata
👀 144 in NL
#3830 📷 9Yellow-faced Fly
🇳🇱 Stekelsluipvlieg
Tachina grossa
👀 88 in NL
#3841 📷 8Wantssluipvlieg
Phasia hemiptera
👀 77 in NL
#3849 📷 10Ectophasia crassipennis
Ectophasia crassipennis
👀 64 in NL
#3855 📷 10Phania funesta
Phania funesta
👀 60 in NL
#3873 📷 10Dexiosoma caninum
Dexiosoma caninum
👀 46 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 326630, Wikidata Q6869621, GBIF 4515069, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.