#3856 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Trilvlieg
Toxonevra muliebris
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Toxonevra muliebris is a species of flutter fly in the family Pallopteridae. It has been found in Europe and North America. The pattern on the wings of this species is distinctive.
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 60 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,678 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Moses Harris in 1780 (246 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Trilvlieg
- scientific name
- Toxonevra muliebris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Pallopteridae
- sightings in NL
- 60
- sightings in Europe
- 1,383
- sightings worldwide
- 1,678
- GBIF records in NL
- 96
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1780 by Moses Harris
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 795146, Wikidata Q14698364, GBIF 1676600, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.