#3934 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
two-banded wasp hoverfly
🇳🇱 Donkere fopwesp ·Chrysotoxum bicinctum
📍 Kirchdorf, Österreich
📍 Imst District, Austria
📍 Provincia di Varese, Italia
📍 Hvaler Municipality, Norway
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ombrosoparacloucycle · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Mike Kerry · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Christian Sørensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Ben Deed · CC0
- 7. Kirchdorf, Österreich:© Barbara Steinbichler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Imst District, Austria:© cagould · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Provincia di Varese, Italia:© Mirko Tomasi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Hvaler Municipality, Norway:© Mika Tomta · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Chrysotoxum bicinctum is a species of hoverfly.
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 17 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,833 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- two-banded wasp hoverfly
- Nederlands
- Donkere fopwesp
- scientific name
- Chrysotoxum bicinctum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Syrphidae
- sightings in NL
- 17
- sightings in Europe
- 3,577
- sightings worldwide
- 3,833
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,550
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Syrphidae
#3752 📷 10Common Drone Fly
🇳🇱 Blinde bij
Eristalis tenax
👀 4.5k in NL
#3753 📷 8Marmalade Hover Fly
🇳🇱 Snorzweefvlieg
Episyrphus balteatus
👀 2.6k in NL
#3754 📷 10Tapered Drone Fly
🇳🇱 Kegelbijvlieg
Eristalis pertinax
👀 1.6k in NL
#3755 📷 8Sun Fly
🇳🇱 Pendelzweefvlieg
Helophilus pendulus
👀 1.6k in NL
#3756 📷 10Yellow-haired Sun Fly
🇳🇱 Doodskopzweefvlieg
Myathropa florea
👀 1.4k in NL
#3757 📷 8Hornet Mimic Hover Fly
🇳🇱 Stadsreus
Volucella zonaria
👀 1.3k in NL
#3759 📷 10Migrant Hover Fly
🇳🇱 Terrasjeskommazweefvlieg
Eupeodes corollae
👀 697 in NL
#3760 📷 7Trivittate Marsh Fly
🇳🇱 Citroenpendelvlieg
Helophilus trivittatus
👀 643 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 337019, Wikidata Q232268, GBIF 1536009, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.