Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Pipiza quadrimaculata

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)
Subfamily Pipizinae
Genus Pipiza
Species quadrimaculata (Pipiza quadrimaculata)
Explanation of Names
Pipiza quadrimaculata (Panzer 1804)
Range
might be a real holarctic one: Europe + NA from AK through Canada to OR-ID + a second population from WI to ME, which actually could be introduced (Martin Hauser, pers. comm. to =v= 18.ix.2013)