#3919 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
white-legged cranefly
🇳🇱 Wittarsglansmug ·Ptychoptera albimana
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Ptychoptera albimana is a species of flies in the family Ptychopteridae. It can be found throughout the Palearctic but commonly found throughout Britain.
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 31 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 555 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787 (239 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- white-legged cranefly
- Nederlands
- Wittarsglansmug
- scientific name
- Ptychoptera albimana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Ptychopteridae
- sightings in NL
- 31
- sightings in Europe
- 168
- sightings worldwide
- 555
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,122
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1787 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Ptychopteridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 631085, Wikidata Q14164871, GBIF 5089433, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.