#3899 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Prosena siberita

Prosena siberita

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Tina Ellegaard Poulsen · CC BY 4.0
2. © kevinkclausen · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Natalie Raeber · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © budak · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Heemstede, Netherlands:© Milo "Bulle" van Loon · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
8. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 2116 Bentveld, Netherlands:© djhiker · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 2061 LM Bloemendaal, Netherlands:© Pieter Prins · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Prosena siberita is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae. It has a long proboscis that it keeps hinged under the body. Its larvae parasitize the larvae of scarab beetles.

base stats

NL sightings 36iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,488iNaturalist 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).