Platycheirus scambus

Platycheirus scambus is a species of hoverfly. It is a Holarctic species.^[1][2][3]

Platycheirus scambus
male
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Syrphinae
Tribe:	Bacchini
Genus:	Platycheirus
Subgenus:	Platycheirus
Species:	P. scambus
Binomial name
Platycheirus scambus (Stæger, 1843)
Synonyms
Syrphus scambus Stæger, 1843

Description

External images For terms, see: Morphology of Diptera.
Femora 1 is without long white hairs at base and with 5 dorsal long black bristles. Tibia 1 is irregularly increasing in width, with a small incision at the outer margin. See references for determination.^[4][5][6][7]

Distribution

Palearctic: Fennoscandia south to central France, Ireland eastward to Northern Europe and Central Europe to European Russia and through Siberia and the Russian Far East. Nearctic: from Alaska to Quebec and south to California.^{[8][9][10] [11]}

Biology

Habitat: fen, including coastal fen and river margins. Also lives in salt-marsh. It flies May to September. ^[2]