Syritta pipiens

Taxobox
name="Syritta pipiens"

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image_caption = male "Syritta pipiens"
image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Aschiza
superfamilia = Syrphoidea
familia = Syrphidae
subfamilia = Milesiinae
tribus = Xylotini
genus = Syritta
species = "S. pipiens"
binomial = "Eristalis tenax"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)
synonyms = *"Musca pipiens" Linnaeus, 1758 [cite book|author=Stubbs, Alan E. and Falk, Steven J.|year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society]

"Syritta pipiens" is a very common species of European hover fly. Sometimes called the Thick-legged Hoverfly, from its distinctive broad hind femora.

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