#3846 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Sylvicola punctatus
Sylvicola punctatus
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland
📍 9351 JX Leek, Netherlands
📍 Gelderland, NL
📍 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © jmli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Saulius Černevičius · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alexei Kouprianov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © swsankt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Jason Headley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 9351 JX Leek, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gelderland, NL:© Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Sylvicola punctatus is a species of fly in the family Anisopodidae. 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 67 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,577 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787 (239 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Sylvicola punctatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Anisopodidae
- sightings in NL
- 67
- sightings in Europe
- 374
- sightings worldwide
- 1,577
- GBIF records in NL
- 673
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1787 by Johan Christian Fabricius
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 471969, Wikidata Q14231663, GBIF 1566646, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.