Platycheirus peltatus

Platycheirus peltatus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.^[2][3]

Platycheirus peltatus
male
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Syrphinae
Tribe:	Bacchini
Genus:	Platycheirus
Subgenus:	Platycheirus
Species:	P. peltatus
Binomial name
Platycheirus peltatus (Meigen, 1822)
Synonyms
Musca timeo Harris, 1780 Platycheirus timeo (Harris, 80) Syrphus peltatus Meigen, 1822 Platychirus islandicus Fristrup, 1943 Syrphus cristatus Schummel, 1836 [1]

Description

External images For terms, see: Morphology of Diptera.
Tibiae 2 is uniformly broadened from base to apex, sometimes with a further swelling on apical 1/5. Metatarsae 1 is greatly enlarged. Dusting on frons is not well-defined. Short and broad tergites 6 and 7 and relatively broad posterior margin of tergite give the abdomen a blunt ended form.

See references for determination.^{[4][5][6][7] [8]}

Distribution

Palearctic: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the Ardennes and Vosges mountains, the Loire floodplain, the Rhine valley, the Pyrenees and the Alps, the former Yugoslavia; Altai mountains (Siberia), and Japan.^[9][10][11]

Biology

Habitat: fen and humid grassland and in association with tall herb vegetation of flushes in grassland; in open areas in humid Fagus, Abies forest.^[12] It flies May to August.