#3915 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

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Tephritis vespertina

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © bsteer · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Arnold Wijker · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nadja Baumgartner · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
5. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Tephritis vespertina is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae, the gall flies. It is found in the Palearctic. The larvae feed on Picris echioides .

base stats

NL sightings 32iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 404iNaturalist 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).