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#3888 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

brown heath robberfly

🇳🇱 Ringpootroofvlieg ·Tolmerus cingulatus

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
brown heath robberfly, photo 1 of 10
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what is it?

De ringpootroofvlieg ( Tolmerus cingulatus ) is een vliegensoort uit de familie van de roofvliegen (Asilidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1781 als Asilus cingulatus gepubliceerd door Johann Christian Fabricius.

base stats

  • NL sightings 38iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,848iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • Spotted 38 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 2,848 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
brown heath robberfly
Nederlands
Ringpootroofvlieg
scientific name
Tolmerus cingulatus
class
Insecta
order
Diptera
family
Asilidae
sightings in NL
38
sightings in Europe
986
sightings worldwide
2,848
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Asilidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 502158, Wikidata Q10827460, GBIF 7572631, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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