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Spotted Cranefly

🇳🇱 Tijgerlangpootmug ·Nephrotoma appendiculata

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © gailhampshire · CC BY 4.0
  2. 2. © Ben S. · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Jeff Jones · CC BY 4.0
  4. 4. © Jeff Jones · CC BY 4.0
  5. 5. © Colin Legg · CC BY 4.0
  6. 6. © Sam R · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Régis Guillemin · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © Régis Guillemin · CC BY-NC 4.0
  9. 9. © Dieter Schulten · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Cranefly, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © gailhampshire · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Nephrotoma appendiculata , the spotted crane fly , is a species of crane fly. 6 in). The body is yellow with short, black stripes on the thorax and a black line on each section of the abdomen. The wings have a thin, yellow line near the leading edge. This species can be seen from May to September at woodland edges, in gardens and fields,...

base stats

  • NL sightings 178iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 6,133iNaturalist observations

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 178 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #42 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
  • 6,133 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Spotted Cranefly
Nederlands
Tijgerlangpootmug
scientific name
Nephrotoma appendiculata
class
Insecta
order
Diptera
family
Tipulidae
sightings in NL
178
sightings in Europe
1,830
sightings worldwide
6,133
GBIF records in NL
3,569
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Tipulidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 132968, Wikidata Q1616483, GBIF 1508996, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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