Syritta pipiens

TaxID: 34682

Basic Information

Syritta pipiens

Hover Fly

Syritta pipiens, sometimes called the thick-legged hoverfly, is one of the most common species in the insect family Syrphidae. This fly originates from Europe and is currently distributed across Eurasia and North America. They are fast and nimble fliers, and their larvae are found in wet, rotting organic matter such as garden compost, manure, and silage. The species is also commonly found in human-created environments such as most farmland, gardens, and urban parks, wherever there are flowers. This species is an important part of its native ecosystem as adult Syritta pipiens flies are critical pollinators for a variety of flowering plants and the species supports parasitism by various parasitic wasp species. Thus, they play an important role in environmental functionality, and can serve as bio-indicators, in which their abundance can reflect the health of the environment. Syritta pipiens looks like many predatory hoverfly species, yet is not predatory.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Diptera

Syrphidae

Syritta

pipiens

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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Syritta pipiens
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(c) Marcello Consolo@BY-NC-SA
Syritta pipiens
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(c) Marcello Consolo@BY-NC-SA
Syritta pipiens
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(c) Marcello Consolo@BY-NC-SA
Syritta pipiens
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(c) Marcello Consolo@BY-NC-SA

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Ecuador Quarantine pests —

Distribution (66 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
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Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Belarus Present —
Brazil Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_905187475.1 Chromosome 318 28212 86509 -

Transcriptomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR9434965 - - NOT COLLECTED 19418519 -
ERR12245502 - - NOT COLLECTED 26662689 -

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature