#3911 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Waisted Beegrabber
🇳🇱 Gewoon knuppeltje ·Physocephala rufipes
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 Zuiderpark, The Hague, South Holland, NL
📍 3791 Achterveld, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Noordoostelijk van Schaarsbergen, Arnhem, Netherlands
📍 5018 TE Tilburg, Nederland
📍 6702 DP Wageningen, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 5. Zuiderpark, The Hague, South Holland, NL:© marcangel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 3791 Achterveld, Nederland:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Noordoostelijk van Schaarsbergen, Arnhem, Netherlands:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 5018 TE Tilburg, Nederland:© Wendy de Beer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 6702 DP Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Physocephala rufipes is a species of fly from the genus Physocephala in the family Conopidae. Their larvae are endoparasites of bumble bees of the genus Bombus . It is common throughout much of Europe.
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 33 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,378 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781 (245 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Waisted Beegrabber
- Nederlands
- Gewoon knuppeltje
- scientific name
- Physocephala rufipes
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Conopidae
- sightings in NL
- 33
- sightings in Europe
- 482
- sightings worldwide
- 1,378
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,867
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1781 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Conopidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61898, Wikidata Q7189749, GBIF 1568963, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.