List of hoverfly species of Great Britain
The following is a list of hoverfly species recorded in Great Britain.
Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk, in their 1983 work British Hoverflies, divided the family into subfamilies and tribes. These subdivisions are now believed to be, to some extent, artificial groupings, not reflecting the evolutionary relationships within the family, so in need of revision. As no replacement system is yet in place, though, these groupings are retained in this list.
The six unnamed species listed in Stubbs and Falk are not included below.
Subfamily [Syrphinae]
Tribe [Bacchini]
;Baccha- Baccha elongata
- Melanostoma dubium
- Melanostoma mellinum
- Melanostoma scalare
- Platycheirus ambiguus
- Platycheirus albimanus
- Platycheirus amplus
- Platycheirus angustatus
- Platycheirus aurolateralis
- Platycheirus clypeatus
- Platycheirus discimanus
- Platycheirus europaeus
- Platycheirus fulviventris
- Platycheirus immarginatus
- Platycheirus manicatus
- Platycheirus melanopsis
- Platycheirus nielseni
- Platycheirus occultus
- Platycheirus peltatus
- Platycheirus perpallidus
- Platycheirus podagratus
- Platycheirus ramsaerensis
- Platycheirus scambus
- Platycheirus scutatus
- Platycheirus splendidus
- Platycheirus sticticus
- Platycheirus tarsalis
- Platycheirus granditarsus
- Platycheirus rosarum
- Xanthandrus comtus
Tribe [Paragini]
- Paragus constrictus
- Paragus haemorrhous
- Paragus tibialis
- Paragus albifrons
Tribe [Syrphini]
- Chrysotoxum arcuatum
- Chrysotoxum bicinctum
- Chrysotoxum cautum
- Chrysotoxum elegans
- Chrysotoxum festivum
- Chrysotoxum octomaculatum
- Chrysotoxum vernale
- Chrysotoxum verralli
- Dasysyrphus albostriatus
- Dasysyrphus friuliensis
- Dasysyrphus hilaris
- Dasysyrphus pauxillus
- Dasysyrphus pinastri
- Dasysyrphus tricinctus
- Dasysyrphus venustus
- Didea alneti
- Didea fasciata
- Didea intermedia
- Doros profuges
- Epistrophe diaphana
- Epistrophe eligans
- Epistrophe grossulariae
- Epistrophe melanostoma
- Epistrophe nitidicollis
- Epistrophe ochrostoma
- Episyrphus balteatus
- Eriozona syrphoides
- Megasyrphus erraticus
- Eupeodes corollae
- Eupeodes latifasciatus
- Eupeodes latilunulatus
- Eupeodes lundbecki
- Eupeodes luniger
- Eupeodes nielseni
- Eupeodes nitens
- Eupeodes lapponicus
- Leucozona glaucia
- Leucozona laternaria
- Leucozona lucorum
- Melangyna arctica
- Melangyna barbifrons
- Melangyna cincta
- Melangyna compositarum
- Melangyna ericarum
- Melangyna labiatarum
- Melangyna lasiophthalma
- Melangyna quadrimaculata
- Melangyna umbellatarum
- Meligramma euchromum
- Meligramma guttata
- Meligramma triangulifera
- Meliscaeva auricollis
- Meliscaeva cinctella
- Parasyrphus annulatus
- Parasyrphus lineolus
- Parasyrphus malinellus
- Parasyrphus nigritarsis
- Parasyrphus punctulatus
- Parasyrphus vittiger
- Scaeva albomaculata
- Scaeva dignota
- Scaeva mecogramma
- Scaeva pyrastri
- Scaeva selenitica
- Sphaerophoria bankowskae
- Sphaerophoria batava
- Sphaerophoria fatarum
- Sphaerophoria interrupta
- Sphaerophoria loewi
- Sphaerophoria philanthus
- Sphaerophoria potentillae
- Sphaerophoria rueppellii
- Sphaerophoria scripta
- Sphaerophoria taeniata
- Sphaerophoria virgata
- Syrphus ribesii
- Syrphus torvus
- Syrphus vitripennis
- Xanthogramma citrofasciatum
- Xanthogramma pedissequum
- Xanthogramma stackelbergi
Subfamily [Milesiinae]
Tribe [Callicerini]
;Callicera- Callicera aurata
- Callicera rufa
- Callicera spinolae
Tribe [Cheilosiini]
- Cheilosia ahenea
- Cheilosia albipila
- Cheilosia albitarsis
- Cheilosia antiqua
- Cheilosia barbata
- Cheilosia bergenstammi
- Cheilosia caerulescens
- Cheilosia carbonaria
- Cheilosia chrysocoma
- Cheilosia cynocephala
- Cheilosia fraterna
- Cheilosia griseiventris
- Cheilosia grossa
- Cheilosia illustrata
- Cheilosia impressa
- Cheilosia lasiopa
- Cheilosia latifrons
- Cheilosia longula
- Cheilosia mutabilis
- Cheilosia nebulosa
- Cheilosia nigripes
- Cheilosia pagana
- Cheilosia praecox
- Cheilosia proxima
- Cheilosia psilophthalma
- Cheilosia pubera
- Cheilosia sahlbergi
- Cheilosia scutellata
- Cheilosia semifasciata
- Cheilosia soror
- Cheilosia uviformis
- Cheilosia variabilis
- Cheilosia velutina
- Cheilosia vernalis
- Cheilosia vicina
- Cheilosia vulpina
- Ferdinandea cuprea
- Ferdinandea ruficornis
- Portevinia maculata
- Rhingia campestris
- Rhingia rostrata
Tribe [Chrysogastrini]
- Brachyopa bicolor
- Brachyopa insensilis
- Brachyopa pilosa
- Brachyopa scutellaris
- Chrysogaster cemiteriorum
- Chrysogaster solstitialis
- Chrysogaster virescens
- Hammerschmidtia ferruginea
- Lejogaster metallina
- Lejogaster tarsata
- Melanogaster aerosa
- Melanogaster hirtella
- Myolepta dubia
- Myolepta potens
- Neoascia podagrica
- Neoascia tenur
- Neoascia geniculata
- Neoascia interrupta
- Neoascia meticulosa
- Neoascia obliqua
- Orthonevra brevicornis
- Orthonevra geniculata
- Orthonevra intermedia
- Orthonevra nobilis
- Riponnensia splendens
- Sphegina sibirica
- Sphegina clunipes
- Sphegina elegans
- Sphegina verecunda
Tribe [Eristalini]
- Anasimyia contracta
- Anasimyia interpuncta
- Anasimyia lineata
- Anasimyia lunulata
- Anasimyia transfuga
- Eristalinus sepulchralis
- Eristalinus aeneus
- Eristalis abusiva
- Eristalis arbustorum
- Eristalis cryptarum
- Eristalis horticola
- Eristalis interruptus
- Eristalis intricarius
- Eristalis pertinax
- Eristalis rupium
- Eristalis similis
- Eristalis tenax
- Helophilus affinis
- Helophilus groenlandicus
- Helophilus hybridus
- Helophilus pendulus
- Helophilus trivittatus
- Lejops vittatus
- Mallota cimbiciformis
- Myathropa florea
- Parhelophilus consimilis
- Parhelophilus frutetorum
- Parhelophilus versicolor
Tribe [Merodontini] (incorporating [Eumerini])
- Eumerus funeralis
- Eumerus ornatus
- Eumerus sabulonum
- Eumerus sogdianus
- Eumerus strigatus
- Merodon equestris
- Platynochaetus setosus
- Psilota anthracina
Tribe [Pelecocerini]
- Chamaesyrphus caledonicus
- Chamaesyrphus scaevoides
- Pelecocera tricincta
Tribe [Pipizini]
- Heringia heringi
- Heringia brevidens
- Heringia latitarsis
- Heringia pubescens
- Heringia verrucula
- Heringia vitripennis
- Pipiza austriaca
- Pipiza bimaculata
- Pipiza fenestrata
- Pipiza lugubris
- Pipiza luteitarsis
- Pipiza noctiluca
- Pipizella maculipennis
- Pipizella virens
- Trichopsomyia flavitarsis
- Triglyphus primus
Tribe [Sericomyiini]
- Arctophila superbiens
- Sericomyia lappona
- Sericomyia silentis
Tribe [Volucellini]
- Volucella bombylans
- Volucella inanis
- Volucella inflata
- Volucella pellucens
- Volucella zonaria
Tribe [Xylotini]
- Blera fallax
- Brachypalpoides lentus
- Brachypalpus laphriformis
- Caliprobola speciosa
- Chalcosyrphus nemorum
- Chalcosyrphus eunotus
- Criorhina asilica
- Criorhina berberina
- Criorhina floccosa
- Criorhina ranunculi
- Pocota personata
- Syritta pipiens
- Tropidia scita
- Xylota abiens
- Xylota coeruleiventris
- Xylota florum
- Xylota jakutorum
- Xylota segnis
- Xylota sylvarum
- Xylota tarda
- Xylota xanthocnema
Subfamily [Microdontinae]
- Microdon analis
- Microdon devius
- Microdon mutabilis
- Microdon myrmicae