There are many kinds of aphid-eating flies, which are difficult to catch, and the following aphid-eating flies are collected and raised indoors. The host is an aphid.
1. Black-banded aphid fly Epistrophe baoteata De Greer
2. Eupeodes latifasciatus Macquart
3. Narrow-banded shellfish aphid fly Betasyrphus serarius Wiedemann
4. Short-spined thorn-legged aphid fly Ischiodon scutellaris Fabricius
5. Saw shield aphid paragus crenulatus Thomson
6. Sphaerophoria taeniata Meigen with the slender-bellied aphid fly
7. Melanostoma Melanostoma Linnaeus
8. Javanese aphid allograpta javana Wiedemann