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Pipiza notata Meigen, 1822

Identification

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

Synonymy

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

Biology

Larvae are unknown, but there is a continental report of rearing what may be this species from larvae collected from Cherry Prunus avium, with a leaf-rolling aphid. Adults are usually found along rides, open areas and edges of deciduous woodland. Whilst they may occasionally visit flowers, they are more often found basking on sunlit 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

Difficult to sparate from P. noctiluca and the identification difficulty probably limits the numbers of records., This species appears to have declined significantly 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. ↩