Platycheirus sticticus

Platycheirus sticticus is a species of hoverfly. It is found in many parts of Europe across to Siberia.^[1][2]

Platycheirus sticticus
Platycheirus sticticus in Meigen Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 5)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Syrphinae
Tribe:	Bacchini
Genus:	Platycheirus
Subgenus:	Platycheirus
Species:	P. sticticus
Binomial name
Platycheirus sticticus (Meigen, 1822)

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Tibiae 1 only slightly dilated at apex and with only scattered short, hair-like lateral bristles, yellow with a dark lateral marking at midlength.

See references for determination^[3][4][5][6]

Distribution

Palearctic Southern Sweden and Denmark South to the Pyrenees and North Spain. Ireland East through Central Europe into Russia and on to eastern Siberia. ^[7][8]

Biology

Habitat Picea, Pinus plantation and Quercus woodland.^[9] Flies May to August.