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

Family Syrphidae - Hover Flies

 
 
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Eristalinae · Microdontinae · Syrphinae · Pipizinae · Unidentified immature stages

Subfamily Eristalinae
Fly - Helophilus fasciatus - female Syrphid Fly, image 1 - Eristalis dimidiata Helophilus - Helophilus fasciatus - female Data pt for late September in NB - Spilomyia fusca Hoverfly: Copestylum marginatum? - Copestylum vittatum - female Syritta pipiens? - Syritta pipiens - male S flagrans - Sericomyia flagrans bumble bee mimic flower fly – Mallota bautias? - Mallota bautias

Subfamily Microdontinae
I'm stuck - Syrphidae or Asilidae ? - Microdon manitobensis - female Microdon Microdon? - Microdon tristis fly060918b - Microdon Microdon - Microdon tristis Syrphid Fly 9mm - Microdon pallipennis Fly? - Microdon Microdon

Subfamily Syrphinae
black and yellow fly - Toxomerus geminatus Toxomerus geminatus? - Toxomerus marginatus - female Hoverfly (Toxomerus marginatus) LaBagh Woods Chicago Cook County IL May 2015 Week #21 Jeff Skrentny IMG_7491 - Toxomerus marginatus hoverfly - Paragus haemorrhous Ocyptamus fuscipennis Syrphid Fly? - Eupeodes - male Toxomerus geminatus - Eastern Calligrapher - Toxomerus geminatus - female Syrphid larva - Ocyptamus

Subfamily Pipizinae
A puzzler: Some sort of male syrphid? Fly on Aphids - female Pipiza sp. - Pipiza Pipiza? Male? - Pipiza - male Pipiza quadrimaculta - Pipiza quadrimaculata - female Small Black Syrphid Possible Neocnemodon ontarioensis - Neocnemodon Diptera. Syrphidae. Pipiza nigripilosa? - Pipiza - female

Unidentified immature stages
Larva - Lepidoptera?-2 (2 of 2) Larva on Saguaro rot Transparent Green Caterpillar apx 6mm long green larvae Unknown Syrphid larva? Syrphid larva? Larva on big bluestem flower

 
 
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