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Platycheirus occultus female | |
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Subgenus: | Platycheirus
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Species: | P. occultus
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Platycheirus occultus Goeldlin de Tiefenau Maibach & Speight, 1990
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Platycheirus occultus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.
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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]
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Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, North Germany, France Switzerland, Spain and northern Italy (Apennines), Serbia, Turkey[3]
Habitat: fen and bog, coastal marsh and dune slacks, humid, seasonally-flooded, grassland, moorland, taiga wetlands. Flies April to September.