#3941 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Tiger Bee Fly
Xenox tigrinus
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 outside Europe
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- 1. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Josh Beasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Brad Walker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Bill Keim · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Emily Hjalmarson · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 7. © Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Bill Keim · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Bill Keim · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The tiger bee fly , Xenox tigrinus , is an insect of the family Bombyliidae (bee flies).
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 27,483 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Neal Evenhuis in 1984 (42 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tiger Bee Fly
- scientific name
- Xenox tigrinus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Bombyliidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 27,483
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1984 by Neal Evenhuis
relatives· Bombyliidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 133799, Wikidata Q14179467, GBIF 1665858, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.