#3848 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Akkerdisteldansvlieg
Empis livida
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what is it?
Empis livida is a species of dance fly, in the fly family Empididae. 40 in). The male's abdomen is brownish, and his wings appear faintly brown and clouded. The female's abdomen is gray and her wings are clear. E. livida lives in hedgerows, feeding on the nectar of several species of Rosaceae, several species of Asteraceae, and Heracleum sphondylium nectar; they also feed on other insects. They live...
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 65 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,568 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Akkerdisteldansvlieg
- scientific name
- Empis livida
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Empididae
- sightings in NL
- 65
- sightings in Europe
- 1,018
- sightings worldwide
- 4,568
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,095
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Empididae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 52516, Wikidata Q3512312, GBIF 1583460, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.