Scaeva

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{About|the genus of hoverflies|the Roman soldier|Cassius Scaeva}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Hoverfly January 2008-8.jpg

| image_caption = Scaeva pyrastri male

| taxon = Scaeva

| authority = Fabricius, 1805

| synonyms = *Catabomba Osten Sacken, 1877

• Lasiopthicu Rondani, 1845

}}

Scaeva is a genus of hoverflies.{{cite book|author1=Stubbs, Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J. |name-list-style=amp |year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society}} The taxonomy of the genus, and the related genera Simosyrphus and Ischiodon has been discussed by Láska et al. (2006){{cite journal |author= Láska, P., Pérez-Bañon, C., Mazánek, L., Rojo, S., Ståhls, G., Marcos-Garciá, A., Bičík, V. & Dušek, J.|date=2006 |title= Taxonomy of the genera Scaeva, Simosyrphus and Ischiodon (Diptera: Syrphidae): Descriptions of immature stages and status of taxa|url= |journal=European Journal of Entomology |volume=103 |issue=3 |pages=637–655 |doi=10.14411/eje.2006.085|doi-access=free}}