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Syrphus nitidifrons Becker, 1921

Identification

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

Biology

Biology poorly known, but it is reported to be a conifer associate. Speight(2017)2 reports that it is rarely seen in numbers and suggests that this may mean that it is a canopy species that rarely descends to lower levels.

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 migrant.

Distribution

Added to the British List by Parker(2010)3. This species is reported to have been spreading westwards across Europe and its arrival in the UK was not unexpected. Since the original record there have been a number of reports of this species from a wide geographic spread across southern England and the East Midlands. 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. Parker, M. (2010). Syrphus nitidifrons Becker 1921 (Diptera, Syrphidae) new to Great Britain. Dipterists Digest (Second Series), 17, 145–146. ↩