Tropidia scita

{{Short description|Species of fly}}

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| image = Tropidia scita2.jpg

| genus = Tropidia (fly)

| species = scita

| authority = (Harris, 1780){{cite book |last1=Harris |first1=M. |title=An exposition of English insects |volume= Decads III, IV|date=1780 |publisher=Robson Co. |location=London |pages= 73–99, 100–138, pls. 21–30, 31–40 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226006#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=16 July 2021}}

| display_parents = 3

| synonyms = *Musca scitus Harris, 1780

• Eristalis milesiformis Fallén, 1817{{cite book |last1=Fallen |first1=C.F. |title=Syrphici Sveciae |date=1816 |publisher=Berlingianis |location=Lundae [= Lund] |pages=1–14}}
• Tropidia dorsalis Macquart, 1829{{cite book |last1=Macquart |first1=P.J.M. |title=Insectes diptères du nord de la France. Syrphies. |volume=1829 |publisher="1827" |location=Lille |pages=223 pp., 4 pls |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/250269#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=16 July 2021}}
• Tropidia rufomaculata Curtis, 1832{{cite book |last1=Curtis |first1=J. |title=British entomology : being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found |volume= 9 |date=1832 |publisher=Privately published |location=London |pages=398–401}}
• Milesiformis fallenii Rondani, 1845

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Tropidia scita is a common Palearctic species of hoverfly associated with wetlands, ponds and ditches. The larvae have been recorded living in the basal sheaths of Typha.{{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}}