Eupeodes perplexus , the bare-winged aphideater, is a species of hoverfly native to North America.

The pile of the face dominantly is pale, and the is head hemispherical; the face is slightly concave below antennae, tuberculate, whitish-yellow, with black cheeks and dark median vitta over tubercle; antennae short, third joint oval; dark crescent-shaped spot over base of each antenna; eyes bare.

[3] The abdominal spots are yellow, finger-like wide, curved and interrupted in the middle.

[citation needed] The similar Melangyna lasiophthalma can be distinguished from E.perplexus by the abdominal spots reaching the lateral margin of the abdomen, which they do not in E. perplexum.

In Scaeva pyrastri, the third wing vein ( R4+5) has a long, moderately deep curvature, and the spots on the abdomen are more curved and slightly constricted in the middle.