#3817 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Driebandtijger
Nephrotoma crocata
📍 Netherlands
📍 6708 DX Wageningen, Netherlands
📍 Aalten, Netherlands
📍 Leyweg, The Hague, South Holland, NL
📍 Markiezaatstraat, Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, NL
📍 6708 LP Wageningen, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © yu_liya228 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © excessmind · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Nadja Baumgartner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Anita Sprungk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Netherlands:© wasdadan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 6708 DX Wageningen, Netherlands:© danplant · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Aalten, Netherlands:© dashi_lotte · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Leyweg, The Hague, South Holland, NL:© marcangel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Markiezaatstraat, Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, NL:© lenasaar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 6708 LP Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Nephrotoma crocata is a species of cranefly found in most of Europe and northern Russia. The subspecies N. c. luteata is found in southwest France, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Algeria.
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 110 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,471 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Driebandtijger
- scientific name
- Nephrotoma crocata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tipulidae
- sightings in NL
- 110
- sightings in Europe
- 1,344
- sightings worldwide
- 3,471
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,294
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tipulidae
#3769 📷 10European Crane Fly
🇳🇱 Gazonlangpootmug
Tipula paludosa
👀 446 in NL
#3771 📷 7black-striped cranefly
🇳🇱 Lentelangpoot
Tipula vernalis
👀 386 in NL
#3789 📷 7Marsh Crane Fly
🇳🇱 Kool-langpootmug
Tipula oleracea
👀 208 in NL
#3792 📷 8four-spotted cranefly
🇳🇱 Zigzagtijger
Nephrotoma quadrifaria
👀 180 in NL
#3794 📷 9Spotted Cranefly
🇳🇱 Tijgerlangpootmug
Nephrotoma appendiculata
👀 178 in NL
#3797 📷 10Oranje maanmug
Tipula lunata
👀 160 in NL
#3805 📷 10Ruittijger
Nephrotoma flavipalpis
👀 138 in NL
#3831 📷 10Contrastwolkvleugel
Tipula confusa
👀 87 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 464062, Wikidata Q2172343, GBIF 1508951, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
