#3812 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Common Dainty

🇳🇱 Vliegende Speld ·Baccha elongata

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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1. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
2. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nicolas Zwahlen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Victor Heng · CC BY 4.0
6. © S. Rae · CC BY 4.0
7. © Ombrosoparacloucycle · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. © wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Baccha elongata is a species of hoverfly (or flower fly) in the genus Baccha . The long, very slender body of this hoverfly is unmistakable. Members of the eristaline genus Sphegina are also very slender and can be found in similar habitat but those flies have a rather different enlarged hind femur, whereas in Baccha this feature is slender. As with most hoverfly species the sexes can be told apart by the male's eyes meeting on the...

base stats

NL sightings 115iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,907iNaturalist 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).