#3860 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Mottled Thistle Fly
🇳🇱 Akkerdistelboorvlieg ·Xyphosia miliaria
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what is it?
Xyphosia miliaria is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
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 53 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,352 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1781 (245 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mottled Thistle Fly
- Nederlands
- Akkerdistelboorvlieg
- scientific name
- Xyphosia miliaria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Tephritidae
- sightings in NL
- 53
- sightings in Europe
- 1,849
- sightings worldwide
- 2,352
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,835
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1781 by Franz von Paula Schrank
relatives· Tephritidae
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Urophora cardui
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Euleia heraclei
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#3874 📷 10Banded Burdock Fly
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Terellia tussilaginis
👀 46 in NL
#3895 📷 10Ragwort Fly
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Sphenella marginata
👀 37 in NL
#3913 📷 10Walnut Husk Fly
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👀 32 in NL
#3915 📷 10Biggenkruidboorvlieg
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👀 32 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 460537, Wikidata Q2598561, GBIF 1622979, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.