#3894 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Straight-banded Smoothtail
🇳🇱 Zwarthaarbandzweefvlieg ·Epistrophe nitidicollis
📍 2548 ER The Hague, Netherlands
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
📍 Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-HS, NL-NB, NL
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
📍 1851 AA Heiloo, Nederland
📍 Nieuwe Niedorp, Netherlands
📍 Nieuwe Niedorp, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © sjfjarvis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pluvialis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Volodymyr Gorobchyshyn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 2548 ER The Hague, Netherlands:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 5. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-HS, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 1851 AA Heiloo, Nederland:© jaaph · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Nieuwe Niedorp, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Nieuwe Niedorp, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Epistrophe nitidicollis is a European and North American 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 37 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 696 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen in 1822 (204 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Straight-banded Smoothtail
- Nederlands
- Zwarthaarbandzweefvlieg
- scientific name
- Epistrophe nitidicollis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Syrphidae
- sightings in NL
- 37
- sightings in Europe
- 473
- sightings worldwide
- 696
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,717
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1822 by Johann Wilhelm Meigen
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 486733, Wikidata Q2306407, GBIF 5766579, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.