Identification difficulty = 5.
according to Ball & Morris, 20241
Added to the British list by Speight et al. (2007)2.
Little known and difficult to identify. The larva is unknown but presumed to be predaceous upon arboreal aphids associated with coniferous trees like other related Eupeodes species.
The following plots show the number of unique records per week that were not reported to be of eggs, larvae or pupae.
The first GB record was from Wareham Forest, Dorset in 2007.
Ball, S., & Morris, R. (2024). Hoverflies of Britain and Ireland. WILDGuides (3rd ed.). Oxford: Princeton University Press. ↩
Speight, M., Sarthou, J., & Levy, D. (2007). Eupeodes goeldlini (Diptera, Syrphidae) new to Britain, France and Ireland, with a key to separate it from related atlantic zone species. Entomologist’s Record & Journal of Variation, 119, 213–219. ↩