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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Milesiini » Tropidiina » Syritta

Genus Syritta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Fly with enlarged hind femur - Syritta pipiens

Syrphid: Syritta pipiens - Syritta pipiens - Syritta pipiens

Syritta pipiens 554A 3762 & 3768 - Syritta pipiens - male - female

MN Oct - Syritta pipiens? - Syritta pipiens - male

Small, distinctive syrphid. Platycheirus? - Syritta pipiens

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Eristalinae

Tribe Milesiini

Subtribe Tropidiina

Genus Syritta

Explanation of Names

Syritta Lepeletier & Serville 1828

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1), ~70 spp. worldwide(2)

Size

6.5-9.5 mm(3)

Identification

Pale triangular spots behind head

Hind femur expanded, convex, black and usually with orange

Please see species identification information on their respective pages.

Range

worldwide; in our area:(2)

S. pipiens: across the US & so. Canada (except the arctic)

S. flaviventris: generally southern (likely of African origin)

Habitat

larvae in wet decaying organic matter (manure, compost, silage)(3)

Season

S. pipiens: mid-Apr to mid-Oct in ON(3)

Print References

Pérez-Bañón C., Marcos-García A. M. (2000) Description of the immature stages of Syritta flaviventris (Diptera: Syrphidae) and new data about the life history of European species of Syritta on Opuntia maxima. Eur. J. Entomol. 97: 131-136 (Full text)

Thompson, F.C., Fee, F.D. and Berzark, L.G. 1990. Two immigrant synanthropic flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) new to North America. Entomological News, 101: 69-74. (Full text)

Internet References

Taxon page(1)

Works Cited

1.	Key to the genera of nearctic Syrphidae Miranda G.F.G, Young A.D., Locke M.M., Marshall S.A., Skevington J.H., Thompson F.C. 2013. Can. J. Arthropod Identification 23: 1‒351.

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

3.	Syrphidae of Ontario

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 20 September, 2004 - 9:34pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Matt Bertone, v belov, kbyers, zdanko
Last updated 20 January, 2022 - 12:57pm

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