Dasysyrphus pinastri is a species of hoverfly found in Europe.

Female frons with large patches of dust.

Ireland eastwards through northern and central Europe (and mountains of northern Italy and Yugoslavia) into Turkey and European Russia then through the Russian Far East and Siberia.

[12] Arboreal, but descends to visit flowers of Caltha, Crataegus, Crepis paludosa, Euphorbia, Fragaria, Frangula alnus, Galium, Heracleum, Hieracium, Lonicera xylosteum, Prunus spinosa, Ranunculus, Rosa rugosa, Salix repens, Sorbus aucuparia and Stellaria.

[13] The flight period is April to June and July (later at higher altitudes or more northerly latitudes).