#3884 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Common Green Colonel
🇳🇱 Kleine moeraswapenvlieg ·Oplodontha viridula
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what is it?
Oplodontha viridula , the common green colonel , is a European species of soldier fly....
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 40 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 779 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Green Colonel
- Nederlands
- Kleine moeraswapenvlieg
- scientific name
- Oplodontha viridula
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Stratiomyidae
- sightings in NL
- 40
- sightings in Europe
- 694
- sightings worldwide
- 779
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,557
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Stratiomyidae
#3768 📷 10Broad Centurion Fly
🇳🇱 Gewone prachtwapenvlieg
Chloromyia formosa
👀 455 in NL
#3816 📷 10Twin-Spot Centurion Fly
🇳🇱 Herfstmetaalwapenvlieg
Sargus bipunctatus
👀 111 in NL
#3853 📷 10Black Colonel
🇳🇱 Zwarte moeraswapenvlieg
Odontomyia tigrina
👀 62 in NL
#3880 📷 10Flecked General
🇳🇱 Gewone langsprietwapenvlieg
Stratiomys singularior
👀 42 in NL
#3902 📷 7Black-horned Gem Fly
🇳🇱 Groene glimwapenvlieg
Microchrysa polita
👀 35 in NL
#3926 📷 10Twin-spotted Major
🇳🇱 Zwart verfdrupje
Oxycera leonina
👀 29 in NL
#3935 📷 9Black Soldier Fly
🇳🇱 Zwarte soldatenvlieg
Hermetia illucens
👀 13 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 471923, Wikidata Q646210, GBIF 1577359, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.