#3784 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Spring Epistrophe
🇳🇱 Enkele-bandzweefvlieg ·Epistrophe eligans
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what is it?
Epistrophe eligans is a European 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 227 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #33 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
- 6,897 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Moses Harris in 1780 (246 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Spring Epistrophe
- Nederlands
- Enkele-bandzweefvlieg
- scientific name
- Epistrophe eligans
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Syrphidae
- sightings in NL
- 227
- sightings in Europe
- 6,223
- sightings worldwide
- 6,897
- GBIF records in NL
- 13,596
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1780 by Moses Harris
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 447104, Wikidata Q2746983, GBIF 5766577, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.