#3754 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Tapered Drone Fly
🇳🇱 Kegelbijvlieg ·Eristalis pertinax
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what is it?
Eristalis pertinax is a European hoverfly. Like Eristalis tenax , the larva of E. pertinax is a rat-tailed maggot and lives in drainage ditches, pools around manure piles, sewage, and similar places containing water badly polluted with organic matter.
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 1,618 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #3 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
- 33,321 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tapered Drone Fly
- Nederlands
- Kegelbijvlieg
- scientific name
- Eristalis pertinax
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Syrphidae
- sightings in NL
- 1,618
- sightings in Europe
- 31,931
- sightings worldwide
- 33,321
- GBIF records in NL
- 91,298
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
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
#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
#3761 📷 10Eurasian Drone Fly
🇳🇱 Kleine bijvlieg
Eristalis arbustorum
👀 626 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 52490, Wikidata Q1759087, GBIF 1541116, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.