Musca sepulchralis Linnaeus, 1758: 596. Type locality: Sweden.
Musca melanius Harris, 1776: 53. Type locality: England.
Syrphus tristis Fabricius, 1794: 303. Type locality: Germany (Kiel).
Eristalis impunctata Strobl, 1910: 106. Type locality: Austria (Radkersburg).
Eristalinus riki Violovitsh, 1957: 752. Type locality: Russia (Far East: Sakhalin).
Eristalis miki Mutin & Barkalov, 1999: 451. Misspelling of riki Violovitsh.
World distribution: OR: India, Pakistan. PA: Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Europe (Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean; from Ireland through most of Europe into Turkey and European parts of Russia; through Siberia to the Pacific coast), Israel, Japan, Jordan, Mongolia, Morocco, Syria.
Egyptian localities: Unknown.
Activity period in Egypt: Unknown.
Remarks: This species was listed as recorded from Egypt by Steyskal & El-Bialy (1967) and Peck (1988), but no specimens or published records have been found. Probably the record is a misidentification.