#3806 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Psectrotanypus varius
Psectrotanypus varius
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Henri Paye · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0
- 4. © Colin Legg · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Michael Knapp · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Pentti Ketola · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Justin Gerlach · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Kim P.-Schmidt · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Psectrotanypus varius is een muggensoort uit de familie van de dansmuggen (Chironomidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1787 door Fabricius.
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 133 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 740 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Psectrotanypus varius
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Chironomidae
- sightings in NL
- 133
- sightings in Europe
- 522
- sightings worldwide
- 740
- GBIF records in NL
- 15,406
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
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relatives· Chironomidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 541953, Wikidata Q14426442, GBIF 4520032, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.