List of hoverfly species of Great Britain facts for kids

Male Sphaerophoria scripta hoverfly with thin abdomen

Volucella inanis is one of the larger species of hoverfly found in Britain.

The following is a list of hoverfly (Syrphidae) species recorded in Great Britain.

Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk, in their 1983 work British Hoverflies, divided the family into subfamilies and tribes. These subdivisions are now believed to be, to some extent, artificial groupings, not reflecting the evolutionary relationships within the family, so in need of revision. As no replacement system is yet in place, though, these groupings are retained in this list.

The six unnamed species listed in Stubbs and Falk (1983) are not included below.

Subfamily Syrphinae

Tribe Bacchini (incorporating Melanostomatini)

Baccha

• Baccha elongata (syn. B. obscuripennis)

Melanostoma

• Melanostoma dubium
• Melanostoma mellinum
• Melanostoma scalare

Platycheirus

• Subgenus Pachysphyria
  • Platycheirus ambiguus
• Subgenus Platycheirus
  • Platycheirus albimanus
  • Platycheirus amplus
  • Platycheirus angustatus
  • Platycheirus aurolateralis
  • Platycheirus clypeatus
  • Platycheirus discimanus
  • Platycheirus europaeus
  • Platycheirus fulviventris
  • Platycheirus immarginatus
  • Platycheirus manicatus
  • Platycheirus melanopsis
  • Platycheirus nielseni
  • Platycheirus occultus
  • Platycheirus peltatus
  • Platycheirus perpallidus
  • Platycheirus podagratus
  • Platycheirus ramsaerensis
  • Platycheirus scambus
  • Platycheirus scutatus
  • Platycheirus splendidus
  • Platycheirus sticticus
  • Platycheirus tarsalis
• Subgenus Pyrophaena
  • Platycheirus granditarsus
  • Platycheirus rosarum

Xanthandrus

• Xanthandrus comtus

Tribe Paragini

Paragus

• Subgenus Pandasyopthalmus
  • Paragus constrictus
  • Paragus haemorrhous
  • Paragus tibialis
• Subgenus Paragus
  • Paragus albifrons

Tribe Syrphini (incorporating Chrysotoxini)

Chrysotoxum

• Chrysotoxum arcuatum
• Chrysotoxum bicinctum
• Chrysotoxum cautum
• Chrysotoxum elegans
• Chrysotoxum festivum
• Chrysotoxum octomaculatum
• Chrysotoxum vernale
• Chrysotoxum verralli

Dasysyrphus

• Dasysyrphus albostriatus
• Dasysyrphus friuliensis
• Dasysyrphus hilaris
• Dasysyrphus pauxillus
• Dasysyrphus pinastri
• Dasysyrphus tricinctus
• Dasysyrphus venustus

Didea

• Didea alneti
• Didea fasciata
• Didea intermedia

Doros

• Doros profuges

Epistrophe

• Subgenus Epistrophe
  • Epistrophe diaphana
  • Epistrophe eligans
  • Epistrophe grossulariae
  • Epistrophe melanostoma
  • Epistrophe nitidicollis
  • Epistrophe ochrostoma

Epistrophella

• Epistrophella euchromus

Episyrphus

• Episyrphus balteatus

Eriozona

• Subgenus Eriozona
  • Eriozona syrphoides

Eupeodes

• Subgenus Eupeodes
  • Eupeodes corollae
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus
  • Eupeodes latilunulatus (bucculatus)
  • Eupeodes lundbecki
  • Eupeodes luniger
  • Eupeodes nielseni
  • Eupeodes nitens

Fagisyrphus

• Fagisyrphus cinctus

Lapposyrphus

• • Lapposyrphus lapponicus

Leucozona

• Subgenus Ischyrosyrphus
  • Leucozona glaucia
  • Leucozona laternaria
• Subgenus Leucozona
  • Leucozona lucorum

Megasyrphus

• Megasyrphus erraticus (syn. Megasyrphus annulipes)

Melangyna

• Melangyna arctica
• Melangyna barbifrons
• Melangyna compositarum
• Melangyna ericarum
• Melangyna labiatarum
• Melangyna lasiophthalma
• Melangyna quadrimaculata
• Melangyna umbellatarum

Meligramma

• Meligramma guttatum
• Meligramma triangulifera

Meliscaeva

• Meliscaeva auricollis
• Meliscaeva cinctella

Parasyrphus

• Parasyrphus annulatus
• Parasyrphus lineolus
• Parasyrphus malinellus
• Parasyrphus nigritarsis
• Parasyrphus punctulatus
• Parasyrphus vittiger

Philhelius

• Philhelius citrofasciatus
• Philhelius pedissequus
• Philhelius stackelbergi

Scaeva

• Scaeva albomaculata
• Scaeva dignota
• Scaeva mecogramma
• Scaeva pyrastri
• Scaeva selenitica

Sphaerophoria

• Sphaerophoria bankowskae
• Sphaerophoria batava
• Sphaerophoria fatarum
• Sphaerophoria interrupta
• Sphaerophoria loewi
• Sphaerophoria philanthus
• Sphaerophoria potentillae
• Sphaerophoria rueppellii
• Sphaerophoria scripta
• Sphaerophoria taeniata
• Sphaerophoria virgata

Syrphus

• Syrphus ribesii
• Syrphus torvus
• Syrphus vitripennis

Subfamily Milesiinae

Tribe Callicerini

Callicera

• Callicera aurata
• Callicera rufa
• Callicera spinolae

Tribe Cheilosiini

Cheilosia

• Cheilosia ahenea
• Cheilosia albipila
• Cheilosia albitarsis
• Cheilosia antiqua
• Cheilosia barbata
• Cheilosia bergenstammi
• Cheilosia caerulescens
• Cheilosia carbonaria
• Cheilosia chrysocoma
• Cheilosia cynocephala
• Cheilosia fraterna
• Cheilosia griseiventris
• Cheilosia grossa
• Cheilosia illustrata
• Cheilosia impressa
• Cheilosia lasiopa
• Cheilosia latifrons (syn. C. intonsa)
• Cheilosia longula
• Cheilosia mutabilis
• Cheilosia nebulosa
• Cheilosia nigripes
• Cheilosia pagana
• Cheilosia praecox (syn. C. globulipes)
• Cheilosia proxima
• Cheilosia psilophthalma
• Cheilosia pubera
• Cheilosia sahlbergi
• Cheilosia scutellata
• Cheilosia semifasciata
• Cheilosia soror
• Cheilosia uviformis
• Cheilosia variabilis
• Cheilosia velutina
• Cheilosia vernalis
• Cheilosia vicina (syn. C. nasutula)
• Cheilosia vulpina

Ferdinandea

• Ferdinandea cuprea
• Ferdinandea ruficornis

Portevinia

• Portevinia maculata

Rhingia

• Rhingia campestris
• Rhingia rostrata

Tribe Chrysogastrini

Brachyopa

• Brachyopa bicolor
• Brachyopa insensilis
• Brachyopa pilosa
• Brachyopa scutellaris

Chrysogaster

• Chrysogaster cemiteriorum (syn. Ch. chalybeata)
• Chrysogaster solstitialis
• Chrysogaster virescens

Hammerschmidtia

• Hammerschmidtia ferruginea

Lejogaster

• Subgenus Liogaster
  • Lejogaster metallina
  • Lejogaster tarsata (syn. L. splendida)

Melanogaster

• Melanogaster aerosa
• Melanogaster hirtella

Myolepta

• Myolepta dubia
• Myolepta potens

Neoascia

• Subgenus Neoascia
  • Neoascia podagrica
  • Neoascia tenur
• Subgenus Neoasciella
  • Neoascia geniculata
  • Neoascia interrupta
  • Neoascia meticulosa
  • Neoascia obliqua

Orthonevra

• Orthonevra brevicornis
• Orthonevra geniculata
• Orthonevra intermedia
• Orthonevra nobilis

Riponnensia

• Riponnensia splendens

Sphegina

• Subgenus Asiosphegina
  • Sphegina sibirica
• Subgenus Sphegina
  • Sphegina clunipes
  • Sphegina elegans (syn. Sphegina kimakowiczi)
  • Sphegina verecunda

Tribe Eristalini

Anasimyia

• Anasimyia contracta
• Anasimyia interpuncta
• Anasimyia lineata
• Anasimyia lunulata
• Anasimyia transfuga

Eristalinus

• Subgenus Eristalinus
  • Eristalinus sepulchralis
• Subgenus Lathyrophthalmus
  • Eristalinus aeneus

Eristalis

• Subgenus Eoseristalis
  • Eristalis abusiva
  • Eristalis arbustorum
  • Eristalis cryptarum
  • Eristalis horticola
  • Eristalis interruptus
  • Eristalis intricarius
  • Eristalis pertinax
  • Eristalis rupium
  • Eristalis similis
• Subgenus Eristalis
  • Eristalis tenax

Helophilus

• Helophilus affinis
• Helophilus groenlandicus
• Helophilus hybridus
• Helophilus pendulus
• Helophilus trivittatus

Lejops

• Lejops vittatus

Mallota

• Mallota cimbiciformis

Myathropa

• Myathropa florea

Parhelophilus

• Parhelophilus consimilis
• Parhelophilus frutetorum
• Parhelophilus versicolor

Tribe Merodontini (incorporating Eumerini)

Eumerus

• Eumerus funeralis
• Eumerus ornatus
• Eumerus sabulonum
• Eumerus sogdianus
• Eumerus strigatus

Merodon

• Merodon equestris

Platynochaetus

• Platynochaetus setosus (accidental import on vegetables)

Psilota

• Psilota anthracina

Tribe Pelecocerini

Chamaesyrphus

• Chamaesyrphus caledonicus
• Chamaesyrphus scaevoides

Pelecocera

• Pelecocera tricincta

Tribe Pipizini

Heringia

• Subgenus Heringia
  • Heringia heringi
• Subgenus Neocnemodon
  • Heringia brevidens
  • Heringia latitarsis
  • Heringia pubescens
  • Heringia verrucula
  • Heringia vitripennis

Pipiza

• Pipiza austriaca
• Pipiza bimaculata
• Pipiza fenestrata
• Pipiza lugubris
• Pipiza luteitarsis
• Pipiza noctiluca

Pipizella

• Pipizella maculipennis
• Pipizella virens

Trichopsomyia

• Trichopsomyia flavitarsis

Triglyphus

• Triglyphus primus

Tribe Sericomyiini

Arctophila

• Arctophila superbiens (syn. A. fulva)

Sericomyia

• Sericomyia lappona
• Sericomyia silentis

Tribe Volucellini

Volucella

• Volucella bombylans
• Volucella inanis
• Volucella inflata
• Volucella pellucens
• Volucella zonaria

Tribe Xylotini

Blera

• Blera fallax

Brachypalpoides

• Brachypalpoides lentus

Brachypalpus

• Brachypalpus laphriformis

Caliprobola

• Caliprobola speciosa

Chalcosyrphus

• Subgenus Xylotina
  • Chalcosyrphus nemorum
• Subgenus Xylotodes
  • Chalcosyrphus eunotus
• Subgenus Xylotomima
  • Chalcosyrphus piger

Criorhina

• Criorhina asilica
• Criorhina berberina
• Criorhina floccosa
• Criorhina ranunculi

Pocota

• Pocota personata

Syritta

• Syritta pipiens

Tropidia

• Tropidia scita

Xylota

• Xylota abiens
• Xylota coeruleiventris
• Xylota florum
• Xylota jakutorum
• Xylota segnis
• Xylota sylvarum
• Xylota tarda
• Xylota xanthocnema

Subfamily Microdontinae

Microdon

• Microdon analis (syn. M. eggeri)
• Microdon devius
• Microdon mutabilis
• Microdon myrmicae