#3928 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Common Copperback

🇳🇱 Gewone kopermantel ·Ferdinandea cuprea

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Anne SORBES · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Anne SORBES · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
6. Den Dolder, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
8. Segbroek, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Ommen, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Ferdinandea cuprea is a European species of hoverfly notable for its brassy abdomen. The larvae have been found in sap from trunk damage on oak and ash.

base stats

NL sightings 28iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,934iNaturalist 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).