#3788 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Spotted Thintail

🇳🇱 Variabel elfje ·Meliscaeva auricollis

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jon J. Laysell · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
3. © Francisco Welter-Schultes · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Michael Knapp · CC BY 4.0
6. © frankgardner · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Nadja Baumgartner · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Meliscaeva auricollis is a West Palearctic species of hoverfly.

base stats

NL sightings 209iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,726iNaturalist 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

Spotted 209 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #37 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
5,726 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen in 1822 (204 years ago).