#3920 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Lighthouse Gall
🇳🇱 Hondsdrafbeursjesgalmug ·Rondaniola bursaria
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Gooweg, Noordwijkerhout, South Holland, NL
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Wageningen, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © migallel · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Thorsten Usée · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © jfgodeau · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Gennadiy Okatov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gooweg, Noordwijkerhout, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Wageningen, NL :© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Rondaniola bursaria is a species of fly in the family Cecidomyiidae, found in the Palearctic The larvae gall ground ivy ( Glechoma hederacea ).
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.
- 407 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf in 1847 (179 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lighthouse Gall
- Nederlands
- Hondsdrafbeursjesgalmug
- scientific name
- Rondaniola bursaria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Cecidomyiidae
- sightings in NL
- 31
- sightings in Europe
- 387
- sightings worldwide
- 407
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,272
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1847 by Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf
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Hartigiola annulipes
👀 78 in NL
#3867 📷 9locust gall midge
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#3872 📷 10Willow Rose Gall Midge
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Rabdophaga rosaria
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#3914 📷 9Grote wilgwratgalmug
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 416806, Wikidata Q13625421, GBIF 1593117, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.