Overall 10KmSq. coverage

The Scottish hoverfly fauna consists of 222 species and 9 forms or sub-species, out of 274 British species. However, some of the Scottish species are probably extinct e.g. Didea alneti, while others e.g. Rhingia rostrata, are probably mis-identifications.  There are 13 species unique to Scotland and not found in the rest of the British Isles.

To date nearly 50,000 records of hoverflies, covering some 998 10Km squares, out of a possible 1116 squares, are held on a computer database by Kob-Web records.

Literature sources have yielded over 5000 records. The main publications being:

The Scottish Naturalist

Annals of the Scottish Naturalist

Entomologists Monthly Magazine

as well as some local natural history journals such as:

Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glasgow

Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences

Transactions of aberdeen Working Men’s Natural History & Science Society

The main museum collections are found in:

The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow

Perth Museum & Art Gallery

Dundee City Museum

Aberdeen University Natural History Museum

Maps of the Scottish Syrphidae

Map Anasimyia contracta

Map Anasimyia interpuncta

Map Arctophila superbiens

Map Brachyopa insensilis

Map Brachyopa pilosa

Map Brachyopa scutellaris

Map Brachypalpoides lenta

Map Chamaesyrphus scaevoides

Map Cheilosia albipila

Map Cheilosia chrysocoma

Map Cheilosia grossa

Map Criorhina floccosa

Map Criorhina ranunculi

Map Chrysotoxum arcuatum

Map Chrysotoxum bicinctum

Map Eristalinus aeneus

Map Eristalis pertinax

Map Eristalis rupium

Map Ferdinandea cuprea

Map Helophilus hybridus

Map Xylota jakutorum

Map Xylota segnis

Map Xylota sylvarum

Map  Xylota tarda