#3938 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Stripe-eyed Lagoon Fly

Eristalinus taeniops

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Johan Pretorius · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Fiona Hellmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Marion Maclean · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Marie Delport · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Marshal Hedin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Shawn O'Donnell · CC BY 4.0
7. Aachen, Deutschland:© Sam Schaack · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. La Mesa, CA, USA:© Marshal Hedin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. Harare, Zimbabwe:© i_c_riddell · CC BY 4.0
10. 1930 SW 142nd Ave, Miami, FL, US:© tashatrujillo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Eristalinus taeniops is a species of hoverfly, also known as the band-eyed drone fly .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,936iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
9,936 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann in 1818 (208 years ago).