#3828 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Superb Ant-hill Hoverfly

🇳🇱 Gewone Citroenzwever ·Xanthogramma pedissequum

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Frank Vassen · CC BY 4.0
2. © Jens Søgaard Hansen · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Rob Carmier · CC0
4. Elsloo, Netherlands:© Alison Place · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 5595 Leende, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Alkmaar, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Noord Tilburg, Tilburg, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. 3431 HZ Nieuwegein, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Xanthogramma pedissequum is an uncommon European species of hoverfly. Little is known of its larval stages, it has been found in nests of the ant Lasius niger , and in with the root aphids Forda formicaria and Trama sp .

base stats

NL sightings 89iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,907iNaturalist 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).