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Pipiza fasciata Meigen, 1822

Identification

Identification difficulty = 3. microscope_icon camera_icon_cross according to Ball & Morris, 20241

Synonymy

Pipiza fenestrata Meigen, 1822 in Stubbs & Falk (2002)2.

Biology

Larvae unlnown. Adults usually found along rides and edges of woodlands (both deciduous and coniferous) where it visits a range of flowers, but is perhaps more frequently found basking on sun-lit leaves.

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

Distribution

A difficult species to identify - which probably limits the numbers of records. This species appears to have undergone a significant decline in occurrence over the past 35 years, some of which may be a result of changing recorder willingness to tackle difficult taxa. dotmap

Trends

The following plots show the Frescalo TFactor vs year and a map of the rescaled frequency (all records) for the species. For an explanation see here. trend

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

  2. Stubbs, A., & Falk, S. (2002). British Hoverflies An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). Reading: BENHS. ↩