Pipizini Explained

Pipizini is a tribe of small to medium-sized generally black hoverflies, although some species also have orange spots on their abdomen.^[1] This nondescript colouring can lead to some species being confused with other dark hoverflies from other tribes. The lack of a facial knob is a good defining feature which separates them from most of these other hoverflies. As with other species in the subfamily Syrphinae the larvae feed on aphids though there seems to be a preference for wax-secreting aphids e.g. Pemphigidae.^{[2] [3] [4]}

List of genera

• Heringia Rondani, 1856^[5]
• Pipiza Fallén, 1810
• Pipizella Rondani, 1856^[5]
• Trichopsomyia Williston, 1888^[6]
• Triglyphus Loew, 1840^[7]

Notes and References

1. Book: Chandler, Peter J. . 1998 . Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera . . 12 . 1 . 1–234 . 0-901546-82-8 . . London .
2. Book: Stubbs . Alan E. . Falk . Steven J.. British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide . 2nd . 1983 . . London . 1-899935-03-7 . 253, xvpp .
3. Book: Ball . S.G. . Morris . R.K.A. . Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) . 2000 . Biological Record Centre . Monks Wood, UK . 1-870393-54-6 . 167 pages .
4. Book: Van Veen, M.P. . Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae . hardback . 2004 . KNNV Publishing . Utrecht . 90-5011-199-8 . 254 .
5. Book: Rondani . Camillo . Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus. Vol: I. Genera italica ordinis Dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata . 1956 . A. Stocchi . Parmae [= Parma]. . 226 + [2] pp.
6. Williston . Samuel Wendell . Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith collecta. Part I, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae . Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 1888 . 15 . 243–292 . 5 July 2021.
7. Loew . Hermann . Bemerkungen uber die in der Posener Gegend einheimischen Arten mehrerer Zweiflugler=Gattungen. . [Zu der] offentlichen Prufung der Schuler des Koniglichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasiums zu Posen . 1840 . 1840 . 40 pp., 1 pl.