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title: "Tapered Drone Fly"
description: "Eristalis pertinax — Insectos y arañas. Eristalis pertinax is a hoverfly in the family Syrphidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/tapered-drone-fly
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tapered Drone Fly

> Eristalis pertinax — Insectos y arañas. Eristalis pertinax is a hoverfly in the family Syrphidae.

- Scientific name: *Eristalis pertinax*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: `farm` (Granja)
- iNaturalist observations: 32793
- Wikidata: [Q1759087](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1759087)
- iNaturalist taxon: [52490](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52490)

## Names

- en: Tapered Drone Fly
- de: Gemeine Keilfleckschwebfliege
- fr: Éristale opiniâtre
- nl: Kegelbijvlieg

## Countries with the most observations

GB (15174), DE (4185), FR (2052), DK (1787), NL (1600), PL (883), FI (792), BE (744), AT (672), IE (500), LU (455), SE (412)

## Summary

Eristalis pertinax is a hoverfly in the family Syrphidae. It was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 and is found in Asia and Europe. Like Eristalis tenax, the larvae of E. pertinax are rat-tailed maggots living in drainage ditches, pools around manure piles, sewage, and similar places containing water with high organic load and low oxygen concentration.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristalis_pertinax

## Photo

![Tapered Drone Fly](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tapered-drone-fly/medium.jpg)

Photo: Iain Robson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73235986

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/tapered-drone-fly?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).