SYRPHIDAE
(hover flies, drone flies, flower flies, hoverfly)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 3 subtaxa 31 images 1 ident. refs
Male (Click to open)
Genus 3 subtaxa 31 images 1 ident. refs
Male (Click to open)Female (Click to open) (Click to open)
Subfamily 69 subtaxa 1,098 images 19 ident. refs
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Genus 3 subtaxa 26 images 2 ident. refs
 (Click to open)Male (Click to open)Male (Click to open)
Subfamily 47 subtaxa 705 images 10 ident. refs
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Unidentified 11 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilySYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies, hoverfly)
SuperfamilySYRPHOIDEA (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies & big-headed flies)
InfraorderEremoneura - Cyclorrhapha (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
in the field() Ball, S. & Morris, R. 2013 Britain’s Hoverflies: an introduction to the hoverflies of Britain WILDGuides, 297pp, Princeton University Press
Ball, S. 2008 Colour key to the tribes of the Syrphidae 12pp, Dipterists Forum
Coe, R.L. 1953 *** Diptera: Syrphidae ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol X. Part 1, 98pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Edkins, K. Photos of Insects www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/insects/index.htm
Falk, S. Diptera (flies) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
Gilbert, F.S. 1993 Hoverflies Naturalists' Handbooks, 5, 67pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
() Rotheray, G.E. 1989 Aphid Predators Naturalists' Handbooks, 11, 77pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Stubbs, A. 2011 A review of extra and potential extra hoverflies Hoverfly Recording Scheme Newsletter 50: 3-6.
Stubbs, A.E. & Falk, S.J. 2002 British Hoverflies (ed 2) 2 edition, 469pp, British Entomological and Natural History Society
Stubbs, A.E. & Falk, S.J. 1983 *** British Hoverflies (ed 1) ***(Superseded) 1 edition, British Entomological and Natural History Society
Stubbs, A.E. 1996 *** British Hoverflies - 2nd supplement ***(Superseded) BENHS
Stubbs, A.E. 1986 *** British Hoverflies - 1st Supplement ***(Superseded) BENHS
van Veen, M. 2004 Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: Identification keys to the Syrphidae 256pp, KNNV Publishing
Webster, C. British Hoverflies syrphidae.3644.co.uk/

Larvae

() Hartley, J. C. 1961 A taxonomic account of the larvae of some British Syrphidae Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Series A. 136 (4): 505-573.
() Rotheray, G.E. 1993 Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain and Europe Diperists Digest Dipterists Digest No. 9.
() Rotheray, G.E. 1989 Aphid Predators Naturalists' Handbooks, 11, 77pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

Tribes

Ball, S.G. 2008 Colour Key to the Tribes of the Syrphidae

SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies, hoverfly) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies, hoverfly)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 361 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies, hoverfly)
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