#3816 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Twin-Spot Centurion Fly
🇳🇱 Herfstmetaalwapenvlieg ·Sargus bipunctatus
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- 1. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Nadja Baumgartner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Brian Starzomski · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nadja Baumgartner · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 8. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Valentin Hamon · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Sargus bipunctatus , the twin-spot centurion , is a European species of soldier fly....
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 111 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,330 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Twin-Spot Centurion Fly
- Nederlands
- Herfstmetaalwapenvlieg
- scientific name
- Sargus bipunctatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Stratiomyidae
- sightings in NL
- 111
- sightings in Europe
- 2,942
- sightings worldwide
- 4,330
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
relatives· Stratiomyidae
#3768 📷 10Broad Centurion Fly
🇳🇱 Gewone prachtwapenvlieg
Chloromyia formosa
👀 455 in NL
#3853 📷 10Black Colonel
🇳🇱 Zwarte moeraswapenvlieg
Odontomyia tigrina
👀 62 in NL
#3880 📷 10Flecked General
🇳🇱 Gewone langsprietwapenvlieg
Stratiomys singularior
👀 42 in NL
#3884 📷 8Common Green Colonel
🇳🇱 Kleine moeraswapenvlieg
Oplodontha viridula
👀 40 in NL
#3902 📷 7Black-horned Gem Fly
🇳🇱 Groene glimwapenvlieg
Microchrysa polita
👀 35 in NL
#3926 📷 10Twin-spotted Major
🇳🇱 Zwart verfdrupje
Oxycera leonina
👀 29 in NL
#3935 📷 9Black Soldier Fly
🇳🇱 Zwarte soldatenvlieg
Hermetia illucens
👀 13 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 416536, Wikidata Q7423983, GBIF 5078357, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.