Brachyopa silviae Doczkal & Dziock, 2004 Examined material. Styria: Graz, Pfanghofweg, Malaise trap 460 m, 47°06’54’’ N, 15°26’11’’ E, 3.4.– 9.4.2019 (1♂), leg. & det. H. Heimburg. Notes. A single male of this rare species was collected in a Malaise trap set in a garden at the edge of a row of some older trees (thereunder P. sylvestris (L.), P. abies (L.) and Populus spp.). A thermophilous pine-dominated mixed forest was situated nearby. So far, only nine other records of this endemic species for Europe are known from Germany, France and Serbia (van Steenis et al. 2020).

Published as part of Heimburg, Helge, Doczkal, Dieter & Holzinger, Werner E., 2022, A checklist of the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Austria, pp. 151-209 in Zootaxa 5115 (2) on page 155, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6352373