Platycheirus rosarum

Platycheirus rosarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Platycheirus
Subgenus: Pyrophaena
Species: P. rosarum
Binomial name
Platycheirus rosarum
(Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms
  • Pyrophaena rosarum (Fabricius, 1787)

Platycheirus rosarum, is a species of hoverfly found in many parts of Britain and Europe. Like it's close relative Platycheirus granditarsus it can be found in marshy meadows and ditches. Indeed the two species can often be found together. The flight time is between May and October though it peaks in abundance in June and July. The most distinctive feature of this fly is the pair of yellowish spots on tergite 2 on an otherwise completely black abdomen.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Stubbs, Alan E. and Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 185, xvpp. 
  2. ^ Van Veen, M.P. (2004) (Hardback). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae. Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. pp. 193. ISBN 9050111998.