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Platycheirus discimanus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Syrphidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Diptera

Genus
  
Platycheirus

Platycheirus discimanus

Similar
  
Platycheirus scambus, Platycheirus tarsalis, Platycheirus rosarum, Platycheirus ambiguus, Platycheirus manicatus

Platycheirus discimanus is a small species of hoverfly. It is found across Europe, Asia and North America.

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Description

External images For terms, see: Morphology of Diptera.
Front tibiae are not dilated. Tarsae 2 first 2 segments are yellow, the first strongly compressed, the second slightly compressed, last 3 segments are black. Head is large and broad.

See references for determination.

Distribution

Palearctic: South Norway south to Belgium and France and the Alps, Ireland east through Northern Europe and Central Europe into Russia and on through Siberia to the Russian Far East and the Pacific coast at Sakhalin, Afghanistan, Mongolia and China. Nearctic: Central Canada and Pennsylvania Fauna Europaea.

Biology

Habitat: It lives in deciduous forest and scrub; scrub-invaded grassland. Flies April to end May.

References

Platycheirus discimanus Wikipedia