List of hoverfly species of Great Britain

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

Male Sphaerophoria scripta hoverfly with thin abdomen

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

Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk, in their 1983 work British Hoverflies,^[1] 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)^[1] are not included below.

Subfamily Syrphinae

Main article: Syrphinae

Tribe Bacchini (incorporating Melanostomatini)

Main articles: Bacchini and Melanostomatini

Baccha

• Baccha elongata^[2] (syn. B. obscuripennis)

Melanostoma

• Melanostoma dubium^[2]
• Melanostoma mellinum^[2]
• Melanostoma scalare^[2]

Platycheirus

• Subgenus Pachysphyria
  • Platycheirus ambiguus^[2]
• Subgenus Platycheirus
  • Platycheirus albimanus^[2]
  • Platycheirus amplus^[3]
  • Platycheirus angustatus^[2]
  • Platycheirus aurolateralis^[4]
  • Platycheirus clypeatus^[2]
  • Platycheirus discimanus^[2]
  • Platycheirus europaeus^[2][5]
  • Platycheirus fulviventris^[2]
  • Platycheirus immarginatus^[2]
  • Platycheirus manicatus^[2]
  • Platycheirus melanopsis^[2]
  • Platycheirus nielseni^[2][6]
  • Platycheirus occultus^[2][5]
  • Platycheirus peltatus^[2]
  • Platycheirus perpallidus^[2]
  • Platycheirus podagratus^[2]
  • Platycheirus ramsaerensis^[2][5][7]
  • Platycheirus scambus^[2]
  • Platycheirus scutatus^[2]
  • Platycheirus splendidus^[8]
  • Platycheirus sticticus^[2]
  • Platycheirus tarsalis^[2]
• Subgenus Pyrophaena
  • Platycheirus granditarsus^[2]
  • Platycheirus rosarum^[2]

Xanthandrus

• Xanthandrus comtus^[2]

Tribe Paragini

Main article: Paragini

Paragus

• Subgenus Pandasyopthalmus
  • Paragus constrictus^[2]
  • Paragus haemorrhous^[2]
  • Paragus tibialis^[2]
• Subgenus Paragus
  • Paragus albifrons^[2]

Tribe Syrphini (incorporating Chrysotoxini)

Main articles: Syrphini and Chrysotoxini

Chrysotoxum

• Chrysotoxum arcuatum^[2]
• Chrysotoxum bicinctum^[2]
• Chrysotoxum cautum^[2]
• Chrysotoxum elegans^[2]
• Chrysotoxum festivum^[2]
• Chrysotoxum octomaculatum^[2]
• Chrysotoxum vernale^[2]
• Chrysotoxum verralli^[2]

Dasysyrphus

• Dasysyrphus albostriatus^[2]
• Dasysyrphus friuliensis^[2]
• Dasysyrphus hilaris ^[9]
• Dasysyrphus pauxillus^[10][11]
• Dasysyrphus pinastri^{[2][Note 1]}
• Dasysyrphus tricinctus^[2]
• Dasysyrphus venustus^[2]

Didea

• Didea alneti^[2]
• Didea fasciata^[2]
• Didea intermedia^[2]

Doros

• Doros profuges^{[2][Note 2]}

Epistrophe

• Subgenus Epistrophe
  • Epistrophe diaphana^[2]
  • Epistrophe eligans^[2]
  • Epistrophe grossulariae^[2]
  • Epistrophe melanostoma^[2]
  • Epistrophe nitidicollis^[2]
  • Epistrophe ochrostoma^[2]

Epistrophella

• Epistrophella euchromus^[2]

Episyrphus

• Episyrphus balteatus^[2]

Eriozona

• Subgenus Eriozona
  • Eriozona syrphoides^[2]

Eupeodes^{[Note 3]}

• Subgenus Eupeodes
  • Eupeodes corollae^[2]
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus^[2]
  • Eupeodes latilunulatus^[2] (bucculatus)
  • Eupeodes lundbecki^[2]
  • Eupeodes luniger^[2]
  • Eupeodes nielseni^[2]
  • Eupeodes nitens^[2]

Fagisyrphus

• Fagisyrphus cinctus^[2]

Lapposyrphus

• • Lapposyrphus lapponicus^[2]

Leucozona

• Subgenus Ischyrosyrphus
  • Leucozona glaucia^[2]
  • Leucozona laternaria^[2]
• Subgenus Leucozona
  • Leucozona lucorum^[2]

Megasyrphus

• Megasyrphus erraticus^[2][12] (syn. Megasyrphus annulipes)

Melangyna

• Melangyna arctica^[2]
• Melangyna barbifrons^[2]
• Melangyna compositarum^[2]
• Melangyna ericarum^[2]
• Melangyna labiatarum^[2]
• Melangyna lasiophthalma^[2]
• Melangyna quadrimaculata^[2]
• Melangyna umbellatarum^[2]

Meligramma

• Meligramma guttatum^[2]
• Meligramma triangulifera^[2]

Meliscaeva

• Meliscaeva auricollis^[2]
• Meliscaeva cinctella^[2]

Parasyrphus

• Parasyrphus annulatus^[2]
• Parasyrphus lineolus^[2]
• Parasyrphus malinellus^[2]
• Parasyrphus nigritarsis^[2][13]
• Parasyrphus punctulatus^[2]
• Parasyrphus vittiger^[2]

Philhelius

• Philhelius citrofasciatus^[2]
• Philhelius pedissequus^[2]
• Philhelius stackelbergi^[14]

Scaeva

• Scaeva albomaculata^[2]
• Scaeva dignota^[15]
• Scaeva mecogramma^[2]
• Scaeva pyrastri^[2]
• Scaeva selenitica^[2]

Sphaerophoria

• Sphaerophoria bankowskae^{[2][9][16][17]}
• Sphaerophoria batava^[2][18]
• Sphaerophoria fatarum^{[2][9][16][19]}
• Sphaerophoria interrupta^[2]
• Sphaerophoria loewi^[2]
• Sphaerophoria philanthus^[2]
• Sphaerophoria potentillae ^{[2][9][20][21]}
• Sphaerophoria rueppellii^[2]
• Sphaerophoria scripta^[2]
• Sphaerophoria taeniata^[2]
• Sphaerophoria virgata ^[2]

Syrphus

• Syrphus ribesii^[2]
• Syrphus torvus^[2]
• Syrphus vitripennis^[2]

Subfamily Milesiinae

Main article: Milesiinae

Tribe Callicerini

Main article: Callicerini

Callicera

• Callicera aurata^{[2][Note 4]}
• Callicera rufa^[2]
• Callicera spinolae^[2]

Tribe Cheilosiini

Main article: Cheilosiini

Cheilosia

• Cheilosia ahenea^[22]
• Cheilosia albipila^[2]
• Cheilosia albitarsis^[2]
• Cheilosia antiqua^[2]
• Cheilosia barbata^[2]
• Cheilosia bergenstammi^[2]
• Cheilosia caerulescens^[23]
• Cheilosia carbonaria^[2]
• Cheilosia chrysocoma^[2]
• Cheilosia cynocephala^[2]
• Cheilosia fraterna^[2]
• Cheilosia griseiventris^[2]
• Cheilosia grossa^[2]
• Cheilosia illustrata^[2]
• Cheilosia impressa^[2]
• Cheilosia lasiopa^{[2][Note 5]}
• Cheilosia latifrons^[2] (syn. C. intonsa)
• Cheilosia longula^[2]
• Cheilosia mutabilis^[2]
• Cheilosia nebulosa^[2]
• Cheilosia nigripes^[2]
• Cheilosia pagana^[2]
• Cheilosia praecox^[2] (syn. C. globulipes)
• Cheilosia proxima^[2]
• Cheilosia psilophthalma^[2][24]
• Cheilosia pubera^[2]
• Cheilosia sahlbergi^[2]
• Cheilosia scutellata^[2]
• Cheilosia semifasciata^[2]
• Cheilosia soror^[2]
• Cheilosia uviformis^[2]
• Cheilosia variabilis^[2]
• Cheilosia velutina^[2]
• Cheilosia vernalis^[2]
• Cheilosia vicina^[2] (syn. C. nasutula)
• Cheilosia vulpina^[2]

Ferdinandea

• Ferdinandea cuprea^[2]
• Ferdinandea ruficornis^[2]

Portevinia

• Portevinia maculata^[2]

Rhingia

• Rhingia campestris^[2]
• Rhingia rostrata ^[2]

Tribe Chrysogastrini

Main article: Chrysogastrini

Brachyopa

• Brachyopa bicolor^[2]
• Brachyopa insensilis^[2]
• Brachyopa pilosa^[2]
• Brachyopa scutellaris^[2]

Chrysogaster

• Chrysogaster cemiteriorum^[2] (syn. Ch. chalybeata)
• Chrysogaster solstitialis^[2]
• Chrysogaster virescens^[2]

Hammerschmidtia

• Hammerschmidtia ferruginea ^[2]

Lejogaster

• Subgenus Liogaster
  • Lejogaster metallina^[2]
  • Lejogaster tarsata^[2] (syn. L. splendida)

Melanogaster^{[Note 6]}

• Melanogaster aerosa^{[2][Note 7]}
• Melanogaster hirtella^[2]

Myolepta

• Myolepta dubia^{[2][Note 8]}
• Myolepta potens^[2]

Neoascia

• Subgenus Neoascia
  • Neoascia podagrica^[2]
  • Neoascia tenur^[2]
• Subgenus Neoasciella
  • Neoascia geniculata^[2]
  • Neoascia interrupta^[2]
  • Neoascia meticulosa^[2]
  • Neoascia obliqua^[2]

Orthonevra

• Orthonevra brevicornis^[2]
• Orthonevra geniculata^[2]
• Orthonevra intermedia^[25]
• Orthonevra nobilis^[2]

Riponnensia

• Riponnensia splendens^[2]

Sphegina

• Subgenus Asiosphegina
  • Sphegina sibirica^[26]
• Subgenus Sphegina
  • Sphegina clunipes^[2]
  • Sphegina elegans^[2] (syn. Sphegina kimakowiczi)
  • Sphegina verecunda^[2]

Tribe Eristalini

Main article: Eristalini

Anasimyia

• Anasimyia contracta^[2]
• Anasimyia interpuncta^[2]
• Anasimyia lineata^[2]
• Anasimyia lunulata^[2]
• Anasimyia transfuga^[2]

Eristalinus

• Subgenus Eristalinus
  • Eristalinus sepulchralis^[2]
• Subgenus Lathyrophthalmus
  • Eristalinus aeneus^[2]

Eristalis

• Subgenus Eoseristalis
  • Eristalis abusiva^[2]
  • Eristalis arbustorum^[2]
  • Eristalis cryptarum^[2]
  • Eristalis horticola^[2]
  • Eristalis interruptus^{[2][Note 9]}
  • Eristalis intricarius^[2]
  • Eristalis pertinax^[2]
  • Eristalis rupium^[2]
  • Eristalis similis^[2]
• Subgenus Eristalis
  • Eristalis tenax^[2]

Helophilus

• Helophilus affinis^[2][27]
• Helophilus groenlandicus^[2]
• Helophilus hybridus^[2]
• Helophilus pendulus^[2]
• Helophilus trivittatus^[2]

Lejops

• Lejops vittatus^[2]

Mallota

• Mallota cimbiciformis^[2]

Myathropa

• Myathropa florea^[2]

Parhelophilus

• Parhelophilus consimilis^[2]
• Parhelophilus frutetorum^[2]
• Parhelophilus versicolor^[2]

Tribe Merodontini (incorporating Eumerini)

Main articles: Merodontini and Eumerini

Eumerus

• Eumerus funeralis
• Eumerus ornatus^[2]
• Eumerus sabulonum^[2]
• Eumerus sogdianus^[28]
• Eumerus strigatus^[2]

Merodon

• Merodon equestris^[2]

Platynochaetus

• Platynochaetus setosus (accidental import on vegetables)^[29]

Psilota

• Psilota anthracina^[2]

Tribe Pelecocerini

Main article: Pelecocerini

Chamaesyrphus

• Chamaesyrphus caledonicus^[2]
• Chamaesyrphus scaevoides^[2]

Pelecocera

• Pelecocera tricincta^[2]

Tribe Pipizini

Main article: Pipizini

Heringia

• Subgenus Heringia
  • Heringia heringi^[2]
• Subgenus Neocnemodon
  • Heringia brevidens^[2]
  • Heringia latitarsis^[2]
  • Heringia pubescens^[2]
  • Heringia verrucula^[2]
  • Heringia vitripennis^[2]

Pipiza

• Pipiza austriaca^[2]
• Pipiza bimaculata^[2]
• Pipiza fenestrata^[2]
• Pipiza lugubris^[2]
• Pipiza luteitarsis^[2]
• Pipiza noctiluca^[2]

Pipizella

• Pipizella maculipennis^[2]
• Pipizella virens^[2]

Trichopsomyia

• Trichopsomyia flavitarsis^[2]

Triglyphus

• Triglyphus primus^[2]

Tribe Sericomyiini

Main article: Sericomyiini

Arctophila

• Arctophila superbiens^[2] (syn. A. fulva)

Sericomyia

• Sericomyia lappona^[2]
• Sericomyia silentis^[2]

Tribe Volucellini

Main article: Volucellini

Volucella

• Volucella bombylans^[2]
• Volucella inanis^[2]
• Volucella inflata^[2]
• Volucella pellucens^[2]
• Volucella zonaria^[2]

Tribe Xylotini

Main article: Xylotini

Blera

• Blera fallax^[2]

Brachypalpoides

• Brachypalpoides lentus^{[2][Note 10]}

Brachypalpus

• Brachypalpus laphriformis ^[2]

Caliprobola

• Caliprobola speciosa^[2]

Chalcosyrphus

• Subgenus Xylotina
  • Chalcosyrphus nemorum^[2]
• Subgenus Xylotodes
  • Chalcosyrphus eunotus^[2]
• Subgenus Xylotomima
  • Chalcosyrphus piger^[30]

Criorhina

• Criorhina asilica^[2]
• Criorhina berberina^[2]
• Criorhina floccosa^[2]
• Criorhina ranunculi^[2]

Pocota

• Pocota personata^[2]

Syritta

• Syritta pipiens^[2]

Tropidia

• Tropidia scita^[2]

Xylota

• Xylota abiens^[2]
• Xylota coeruleiventris^[2]
• Xylota florum^[2]
• Xylota jakutorum^[1]
• Xylota segnis^[2]
• Xylota sylvarum^[2]
• Xylota tarda^[2]
• Xylota xanthocnema^[2]

Subfamily Microdontinae

Main article: Microdontinae

Microdon

• Microdon analis^[2] (syn. M. eggeri)
• Microdon devius^[2]
• Microdon mutabilis^[2]
• Microdon myrmicae^[31]

Notes

1. listed as D. lunulatus by Stubbs & Falk (1983)
2. listed as D. conopseus by Stubbs & Falk (1983)
3. Metasyrphus of Stubbs & Falk (1983)
4. listed in Stubbs & Falk (1983) as C. aenea
5. listed as C. honesta by Stubbs & Falk (1983)
6. included in Chrysogaster in Stubbs & Falk (1983)
7. listed as Chrysogaster macquarti in Stubbs & Falk (1983)
8. listed as M. luteola in Stubbs & Falk (1983)
9. listed as E. nemorum by Stubbs & Falk (1983)
10. listed in Stubbs & Falk (1983) as B. lenta