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Eupeodes lundbecki (Soot-Ryen, 1946)

Identification

Identification difficulty = 5. microscope_icon camera_icon_cross according to Ball & Morris, 20241

Biology

The larva is unknown. This is a common species on the continent, where adults are found in mixed woodland, conifer plantations, gardens, etc., and visit a variety of flowers, especially white umbels, thistles Cirsium and Carduus spp. and often settle on sun-lit vegetation. According to Speight (2017)2 in flight it is very reminiscent of Scaeva.

Flight period

The following plots show the number of unique records per week that were not reported to be of eggs, larvae or pupae. phenology

Status

Occasional vagrant to the British Isles.

Distribution

Added to the British list by Watt & Robertson (1990)3 from specimens at Aberdeen in 1976, Fair Isle in 1982 and Tynron, Dumfries in 1984, and subsequently recorded in several years from Stiffkey, Norfolk by Ivan Perry. It is regarded as migratory in continental Europe and large scale movements apparently occur out of Scandinavia in August/September. Occurrences on the east coast are consistent with this being a migrant/vagrant from northern Europe. dotmap

  1. Ball, S., & Morris, R. (2024). Hoverflies of Britain and Ireland. WILDGuides (3rd ed.). Oxford: Princeton University Press. ↩

  2. Speight, M. (2017). Species accounts of European Syrphidae ( No. 97). yrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera) (p. 294). Dublin: Syrph the Net publications. Retrieved from https://pollinators.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/StN-2017-Species-Accounts.pdf ↩

  3. Watt, K., & Robertson, D. (1990). Eupeodes lundbecki (Soot-Ryen) (Diptera: Syrphidae) new to Britain and its separation from related species. Dipterists Digest (first series), 6, 23–27. ↩