Hover Fly Collection

Curtis British Entomology Plate 509
Diptera: Scaeva unicolor = Scaeva pyrastri (Concolourous Hover-fly) [Plant: Potentilla sterilis (Fragaria sterilis, Barren Strawberry)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 452
Diptera: Volucella inflata (Inflated Hover-fly) [Plant: Pentaglossis sempervirens (Anchusa sempervirens, Evergreen Alkanet)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 432
Diptera: Eristalis nubilipennis = Eristalis cryptarum (Beautiful Hover-Fly) [Plant: Oenanthe pimpinelloides (Parsley Water Dropwort)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 429
Diptera: Helophilus ruddii = Lejops vittatus (Yarmouth Hover-fly) [Plant: Silene nutans (Nottingham Catchfly)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 425
Diptera: Xylota bifasciata = Chalcosyrphus bifasciatus (Four-spotted Hover-fly) [Plant: Conopodium majus (Bunium flexuosum, Common Earth-nut)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 401
Diptera: Tropidia rufomaculata = Tropidia scita (British Tropidia Hover-fly) [Plant: Scandix pecten-veneris (Venus?s Combe)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 186
Diptera: Ceria conopsoides = Ceriana conopsoides (Long-horned Hover-Fly. Not British) [Plant: Briza media (Common Quaker-grass)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 182
Diptera: Rhingia campestris = Rhingia macrocephala (Chequered-bodied Hover-fly) [Plant: Silene dioica (Melandrium rubrum; Lychnis dioica var. diurna, Red Campion)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 98
Diptera: Merodon clavipes (Beautiful Merodon Hover-fly. Extinct in Britain) [Plant: Narcissus pseudonarcissus (Common Daffodil)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 70
Diptera: Microdon apiformis = Microdon mutabilis (Bee-like Hover-fly) [Plant: Lamium purpureum (Red Archangel)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 34
Diptera: *Milesia speciosa (cf. Caliprobola speciosa. Beautiful Milesia Hover-fly) [Plant: Euphorbia amygdaloides (Wood Spurge)] Date: 1824-39

Eristalis tenax, drone-fly larvae
Eristalis tenax is one of quite a large group of closely related hover-flies which have rat-tailed maggots, i.e. larvae with an elongated breathing tube at the end of their bodies. E

Leucozona lucorum L. hoverfly
Adult female Hover fly (Diptera: family Syrphidae) feeding on clover flowers. Hoverflies resemble bees and wasps. Most adult hoverflies feed on nectar and pollen

Hoverfly in amber
Hoverfly preserved in Baltic amber. This specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

Syrphus ribesii, hoverfly
This species of hoverfly is often seen feeding on nectar within the Museums Wildlife Garden. Photograph taken by Derek Adams in April 2003

Volucella sp. hover-fly
Photograph of a hover-fly (Volucella sp.) on a flower

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