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Thick-legged hover fly

Syritta pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758)

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The thick-legged hover fly (Syritta pipiens) is a species in the family Syrphidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the thick-legged hover fly

Weight
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Lifespan
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Main food
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Habitat
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Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the thick-legged hover fly live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the thick-legged hover fly as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the thick-legged hover fly endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the thick-legged hover fly classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familySyrphidae
  6. genusSyritta
  7. SpeciesSyritta pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Conops pipiens, Musca pipiens, Musca pipines, Spheginoides tenofemorus, Syritta albicincta, Syritta flavicans, Syritta obscuripes, Syritta pipiens var. albicincta, Syritta pipiens var. flavicans, Syritta pipiens var. obscuripes, Syritta pipiens var. vicina, Syritta vicina, Xylota proxima

Other names and names in other languages (24)
  • Common compost flyEnglish
  • ذباب السماد الشائعArabic
  • pestřenka pisklaváCzech
  • Kompost-svirreflueDanish
  • Kleine MistbieneGerman
  • Mosca flotadora de patas anchasSpanish
  • KompostisirelaneEstonian
  • pikkupuuhariFinnish
  • PípubressaFaroese
  • Syritte piaulanteFrench
  • zizegő comboslégyHungarian
  • モモブトチビハナアブJapanese
  • 알통다리꽃등에Korean
  • kompostblomsterflueNorwegian Bokmål
  • MenuetzweefvliegDutch
  • kompostblomsterflugeNorwegian Nynorsk
  • PiszczeńPolish
  • Булавоножка пискляваяRussian
  • pestrica piskľaváSlovak
  • kompostblomflugaSwedish
  • 黃環粗股蚜蠅Chinese
  • ذباب حوام سميك الساقينArabic
  • Gemeine KeulenschwebfliegeGerman
  • Syrphe à cuisses largesFrench

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the thick-legged hover fly

Other species in the same genus Syritta.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the thick-legged hover fly an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the thick-legged hover fly as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the thick-legged hover fly?

The thick-legged hover fly (Syritta pipiens) belongs to the family Syrphidae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Thick-legged hover fly (Syritta pipiens). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/thick-legged-hover-fly

MLA

“Thick-legged hover fly (Syritta pipiens).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/thick-legged-hover-fly.

BibTeX
@misc{thick_legged_hover_fly_2026,
  title = {Thick-legged hover fly (Syritta pipiens)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/thick-legged-hover-fly},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}