#3808 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Downlooker Snipefly

🇳🇱 Gewone snipvlieg ·Rhagio scolopaceus

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © CÃ©cile Bassaglia · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Aldina Franco · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © popeye4086 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © nickyth · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 3981 Bunnik, Netherlands:© djhiker · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland:© wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 5688 Oirschot, Nederland:© Marsel · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Wandelbos Eckart, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL:© michieljorissen · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Zuidwest, Utrecht, Netherlands:© tobyyy · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. 8371 Scheerwolde, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Rhagio scolopaceus is a species of flies from the family Rhagionidae. It is also known as the downlooker snipefly . It is the type species of the genus Rhagio .

base stats

NL sightings 124iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,811iNaturalist 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).