#3904 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Giant cranefly
🇳🇱 Reuzenlangpoot ·Tipula maxima
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands
📍 Valkenswaard, Nederland
📍 Voerendaal, Netherlands
📍 Velp, Nederland
📍 6708 PA Wageningen, Nederland
📍 2061 LM Bloemendaal, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Li Jianong · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © goldfjnch · CC0
- 3. © Max G.W. Verheij · CC0
- 4. © Richard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Valkenswaard, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Voerendaal, Netherlands:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Velp, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 6708 PA Wageningen, Nederland:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. 2061 LM Bloemendaal, Netherlands:© Pieter Prins · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Tipula maxima is a species of True Cranefly.
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 35 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,940 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Giant cranefly
- Nederlands
- Reuzenlangpoot
- scientific name
- Tipula maxima
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tipulidae
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 2,464
- sightings worldwide
- 2,940
- GBIF records in NL
- 913
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761 by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus
relatives· Tipulidae
#3769 📷 10European Crane Fly
🇳🇱 Gazonlangpootmug
Tipula paludosa
👀 446 in NL
#3771 📷 7black-striped cranefly
🇳🇱 Lentelangpoot
Tipula vernalis
👀 386 in NL
#3789 📷 7Marsh Crane Fly
🇳🇱 Kool-langpootmug
Tipula oleracea
👀 208 in NL
#3792 📷 8four-spotted cranefly
🇳🇱 Zigzagtijger
Nephrotoma quadrifaria
👀 180 in NL
#3794 📷 9Spotted Cranefly
🇳🇱 Tijgerlangpootmug
Nephrotoma appendiculata
👀 178 in NL
#3797 📷 10Oranje maanmug
Tipula lunata
👀 160 in NL
#3805 📷 10Ruittijger
Nephrotoma flavipalpis
👀 138 in NL
#3817 📷 10Driebandtijger
Nephrotoma crocata
👀 110 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 359317, Wikidata Q766595, GBIF 1507199, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.