Pipizinae

The Pipizinae is a subfamily of hoverflies. Pipizinae was formerly considered a tribe within Eristalinae, but a phylogenetic analysis published in 2015 suggested it should be ranked as a separate subfamily, sister to the Syrphinae.^[1]

Pipizinae
P. quadrimaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Pipizinae Williston, 1885[1][2]

Its members are small to medium-sized and generally black, although some species also have orange spots on their abdomen.^[3] The larvae feed on aphids, though they seem to have a preference for wax-secreting aphids, e.g. Pemphigidae.^[4][5][6]

Genera

• Claussenia Vujić & Ståhls, 2013^[1]
• Cryptopipiza Mutin, 1998^[1]
• Heringia Rondani, 1856^[7][1]
• Neocnemodon Goffe, 1944^[1]
• †Oligopipiza Nidergas, Hadrava & Nel, 2018 (a fossil genus from Middle Oligocene ~28 MYR-BP)^[8]
• Pipiza Fallén, 1810^[1]
• Pipizella Rondani, 1856^[7][1]
• Trichopsomyia Williston, 1888^[9][1]
• Triglyphus Loew, 1840^[10][1]