#3830 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Yellow-faced Fly
🇳🇱 Stekelsluipvlieg ·Tachina grossa
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Tachina grossa or giant tachinid fly is a very large tachinid 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 88 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,702 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-faced Fly
- Nederlands
- Stekelsluipvlieg
- scientific name
- Tachina grossa
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tachinidae
- sightings in NL
- 88
- sightings in Europe
- 2,370
- sightings worldwide
- 2,702
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,217
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tachinidae
#3772 📷 8Common Tachinid
🇳🇱 Woeste sluipvlieg
Tachina fera
👀 362 in NL
#3798 📷 10Phasia aurigera
Phasia aurigera
👀 156 in NL
#3803 📷 10Red Spotted Parasite Fly
Eriothrix rufomaculata
👀 144 in NL
#3819 📷 10Mintho rufiventris
Mintho rufiventris
👀 103 in NL
#3841 📷 8Wantssluipvlieg
Phasia hemiptera
👀 77 in NL
#3849 📷 10Ectophasia crassipennis
Ectophasia crassipennis
👀 64 in NL
#3855 📷 10Phania funesta
Phania funesta
👀 60 in NL
#3873 📷 10Dexiosoma caninum
Dexiosoma caninum
👀 46 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 423928, Wikidata Q3513605, GBIF 5978626, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.