#3834 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Golden-tailed Leafwalker
🇳🇱 Grote gouden bladloper ·Xylota sylvarum
📍 6871 Renkum, Nederland
📍 Leidschendam, Nederland
📍 Houten, Nederland
📍 Grintweg 358-360, 6704 AS Wageningen, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Sandy Rae · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Bjarne Amstrup · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nigel Sawyer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Anne SORBES · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 6871 Renkum, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Houten, Nederland:© djhiker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Grintweg 358-360, 6704 AS Wageningen, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Xylota sylvarum is a common Palearctic species of hoverfly.
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 85 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,027 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Golden-tailed Leafwalker
- Nederlands
- Grote gouden bladloper
- scientific name
- Xylota sylvarum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Syrphidae
- sightings in NL
- 85
- sightings in Europe
- 1,506
- sightings worldwide
- 2,027
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,507
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Syrphidae
#3752 📷 10Common Drone Fly
🇳🇱 Blinde bij
Eristalis tenax
👀 4.5k in NL
#3753 📷 8Marmalade Hover Fly
🇳🇱 Snorzweefvlieg
Episyrphus balteatus
👀 2.6k in NL
#3754 📷 10Tapered Drone Fly
🇳🇱 Kegelbijvlieg
Eristalis pertinax
👀 1.6k in NL
#3755 📷 8Sun Fly
🇳🇱 Pendelzweefvlieg
Helophilus pendulus
👀 1.6k in NL
#3756 📷 10Yellow-haired Sun Fly
🇳🇱 Doodskopzweefvlieg
Myathropa florea
👀 1.4k in NL
#3757 📷 8Hornet Mimic Hover Fly
🇳🇱 Stadsreus
Volucella zonaria
👀 1.3k in NL
#3759 📷 10Migrant Hover Fly
🇳🇱 Terrasjeskommazweefvlieg
Eupeodes corollae
👀 697 in NL
#3760 📷 7Trivittate Marsh Fly
🇳🇱 Citroenpendelvlieg
Helophilus trivittatus
👀 643 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 344019, Wikidata Q2747855, GBIF 1541654, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.