Kingdom Animalia Order Diptera Genus Platycheirus Scientific name Platycheirus occultus Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Family Syrphidae Subgenus Platycheirus Higher classification Platycheirus | |
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Similar Platycheirus scambus, Platycheirus, Hoverfly, Fly, Platycheirus manicatus | ||
Platycheirus occultus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.
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Description
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Tarsae 1: apical half of all segments without dark brown to black blotches ventrally.Femora 1 black to dark brown for less than half its length.Surstyli pale-haired.
Distribution
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, North Germany, France Switzerland, Spain and northern Italy (Apennines), Serbia, Turkey
Biology
Habitat:fen and bog, coastal marsh and dune slacks, humid, seasonally-flooded, grassland, moorland,taiga wetlands.Flies April to September.
References
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