Species Syrphus torvus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Hoverfly - Tribe Syrphini - Syrphus torvus

flower fly – genus Epistrophe? - Syrphus torvus - female

Lateish syrphid. One of the few this year on invasive English Ivy - Syrphus torvus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Syrphinae

Tribe Syrphini

Genus Syrphus

Species torvus (Syrphus torvus)

Explanation of Names

Syrphus torvus Osten Sacken 1875

torvus 'savage, fierce-eyed'(1)

Size

7‒15 mm(2)

Identification

has hairy eyes (more in the male than in the female) and is generally more northern than S. opinator

Range

holarctic: most of NA (Alaska to Greenland to CA‒FL) & Eurasia(3)(BG data)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	University of Alberta Entomology Collection

3.	Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5

Contributed by Matthew Roth on 29 April, 2007 - 9:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 23 November, 2023 - 10:25pm

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