#3821 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
orange-marked cranefly
🇳🇱 Viervlekglansmug ·Ptychoptera contaminata
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 Streefkerk, Streefkerk, Zuid-Holland, NL
📍 Boezemweg, Lexmond, South Holland, NL
📍 Rijswijk, Handelskade, 2288 EK Rijswijk, Netherlands
📍 Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland
📍 Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Brevan Wagner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © gbohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Bernd Bäumler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Wageningen, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Streefkerk, Streefkerk, Zuid-Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Boezemweg, Lexmond, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Rijswijk, Handelskade, 2288 EK Rijswijk, Netherlands:© Moth · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Ptychoptera contaminata is a species of fly in the family Ptychopteridae. It is found in the Palearctic.
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 97 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,251 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- orange-marked cranefly
- Nederlands
- Viervlekglansmug
- scientific name
- Ptychoptera contaminata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Ptychopteridae
- sightings in NL
- 97
- sightings in Europe
- 468
- sightings worldwide
- 2,251
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,414
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Ptychopteridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 418158, Wikidata Q1558680, GBIF 5089477, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.