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Pipiza festiva Meigen, 1822

Identification

Identification difficulty = 4. microscope_icon camera_icon_cross according to Ball & Morris, 20241

Synonymy

Added by the British list by Speight (2002)2 on the basis of specimen in the collection of the Royal Ulster Museum, Belfast. Since this specimen is a female, the identification cannot be regarded as reliable and Speight does not include the species in more recent, published lists of Irish species.

Distribution

Only known from Ireland in the British Isles.

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

  2. Speight, M. (2002). Two controversial additions to the Irish insect list: Microdon myrmicae Schönrogge et al. and Pipiza festiva Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae). Bulletin of the Irish biogeographical Society, 26, 143–153. ↩