Doros profuges - Phantom Hoverfly

Name: Doros profuges (Harris, 1780)

Family: Syrphidae

Common name: Phantom Hoverfly (previously “A Hoverfly”)

Rare in England - scattered localities in the south-east and isolated sites in the south-west and north-west. On Mull in Scotland, but absent from Wales and Northern Ireland.

Distribution map from publicly available, 10km square resolution data on the NBN Gateway.

Distribution map from the Hoverfly Recording Scheme.

Upland/Lowland Calcareous grasslands Various deciduous woodlands

Existing BAP species

Ian Middlebrook, Action for Invertebrates

UK BAP