Eristalis pertinax

Taxobox | name = "Eristalis pertinax"

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image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
familia = Syrphidae
subfamilia = Eristalinae
tribus = Eristaliini
subtribus = Eristaliina
genus = "Eristalis"
subgenus = "Eoseristalis"
species = "E. pertinax"
binomial = "Eristalis (Eoseristalis) pertinax"
binomial_authority = (Scopoli, 1763)
synonyms = *"E. fossarum" Meigen, 1822
*"Conops pertinax" Scopoli, 1763 [cite book|author=Stubbs, Alan E. and Falk, Steven J.|year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society]

"Eristalis pertinax" is a European hoverfly, also known as the drone fly. Like "Eristalis tenax", the larva of "E. pertinax" is a rat-tailed maggot and lives in drainage ditches, pools around manure piles, sewage, and similar places containing water badly polluted with organic matter.

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