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]

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.[8][9][10]

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.[11] It flies May to August.

References
  1. Insecta pro
  2. Ball, Stuart; Morris, Roger (2013). Britain's Hoverflies: An Introduction to the Hoverflies of Britain. Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press. pp. 296pp. ISBN 978-0-691-15659-0.
  3. Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
  4. Van Veen, M. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum.
  5. Van der Goot, V.S. (1981). De zweefvliegen van Noordwest - Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux. KNNV, Uitgave no. 32: 275pp. Amsterdam.
  6. Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988). Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Part I. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6.
  7. Coe, R.L. (1953). "Diptera: Syrphidae". Handbks. Ident. Br. Insects 10(1): 1-98. R. Ent. Soc. London. pdf.
  8. Fauna Europaea.
  9. Peck, L.V. (1988). "Syrphidae". In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 8: 11-230. Akad. Kiado, Budapest.
  10. Vockeroth, J.R. (1992). The Flower Flies of the Subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 18. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Government Pub Centre. pp. 1–456. ISBN 0-660-13830-1.
  11. Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.


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