Platycheirus angustatus is a species of hoverfly. It is found in many parts of the Palearctic, and in the Nearctic.[2][3][4][5]
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| Platycheirus angustatus female, Trawscoed, North Wales | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Bacchini |
| Genus: | Platycheirus |
| Subgenus: | Platycheirus |
| Species: | P. angustatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platycheirus angustatus (Zetterstedt, 1843)
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Description
editExternal images For terms, see: Morphology of Diptera.
Wing length: 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in). Notopleurae and anepisternum shiny. Tergites 2 and 3 are much longer than wide; spots on tergite 3 at least 4/5 length of tergite; femur 1: some long black hairs suddenly bent at tip. The male genitalia are figured by Goeldlin et al (1990).[6] The larva is described and figured by Rotheray (1988) [7] See references for determination.[8][9][10][11]
Distribution
editPalearctic: Fennoscandia south to North Spain, Ireland east through North Europe and Central Europe, European Russia to Siberia and the Pacific coast (Sakhalin Is.) Nearctic: Alaska to Quebec and south to Washington.[12][13][14]
Biology
editHabitat: wetland fen, marsh unimproved grassland subject to seasonal flooding.[15] Flowers visited include Cyperaceae, Graminae, Aegopodium, Leontodon, Lycopus europaeus, Polygonum cuspidatum, Ranunculus, Rubus fruticosus. Flies May to September. The larva feeds on aphids.
References
edit- ^ Insecta pro
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN 1-870393-54-6.
- ^ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN 1-899935-03-7.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Goeldlin de Tiefenau, P., Maibach, A. & Speight, M.C.D. (1990) Sur quelques especes de Platycheirus (Diptera, Syrphidae) nouvelles ou meconnues. Dipterists Digest, 5: 19-44.
- ^ Rotheray, G. E. 1988. Third stage larvae of six species of aphidophagous Syrphidae (Diptera). Entomologist's Gazette, 39, 153-159.
- ^ Van Veen, M. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Coe, R.L. (1953). "Diptera: Syrphidae". Handbks. ident. Br. insects 10(1): 1-98. R. ent. Soc. London. pdf
- ^ Fauna Europaea.
- ^ Peck, L.V. (1988). "Syrphidae". In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad. Kiado, Budapest.
- ^ 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 (PDF). Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Government Pub Centre. pp. 1–456. ISBN 0-660-13830-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-15. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ 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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