#3926 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Twin-spotted Major
🇳🇱 Zwart verfdrupje ·Oxycera leonina
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
📍 Lisse, Nederland
📍 Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland
📍 Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, Gelderland, NL
📍 Westwijk, Amstelveen, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Pierre Bornand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Julien C. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Cristobal Jimenez · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Lisse, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, Gelderland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. Westwijk, Amstelveen, Nederland:© Mathijs · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Oxycera leonina , the twin-spotted major , 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 29 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 198 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1798 (228 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Twin-spotted Major
- Nederlands
- Zwart verfdrupje
- scientific name
- Oxycera leonina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Stratiomyidae
- sightings in NL
- 29
- sightings in Europe
- 177
- sightings worldwide
- 198
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,137
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1798 by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
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
#3884 📷 8Common Green Colonel
🇳🇱 Kleine moeraswapenvlieg
Oplodontha viridula
👀 40 in NL
#3902 📷 7Black-horned Gem Fly
🇳🇱 Groene glimwapenvlieg
Microchrysa polita
👀 35 in NL
#3935 📷 9Black Soldier Fly
🇳🇱 Zwarte soldatenvlieg
Hermetia illucens
👀 13 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 736828, Wikidata Q7115878, GBIF 1578019, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.