Platycheirus occultus
Species of fly
| Platycheirus occultus | |
|---|---|
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| Platycheirus occultus female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Bacchini |
| Genus: | Platycheirus |
| Subgenus: | Platycheirus |
| Species: | P. occultus |
| Binomial name | |
| Platycheirus occultus Goeldlin de Tiefenau Maibach & Speight, 1990 | |
Platycheirus occultus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.
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.[1] [2]
Distribution
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, North Germany, France Switzerland, Spain and northern Italy (Apennines), Serbia, Turkey[3]
Biology
Habitat: fen and bog, coastal marsh and dune slacks, humid, seasonally-flooded, grassland, moorland, taiga wetlands. Flies April to September.
References
- ^ Speight, M.C.D. & Goeldlin de Tiefenau, P. (1990) Keys to distinguish Platycheirus angustipes, P.europaeus, P.occultus and P.ramsarensis (Dipt., Syrphidae) from other clypeatus group species known in Europe. Dipterists Digest, 5: 5-18.
- ^ Van Veen, M. P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
- ^ 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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