Platycheirus manicatus
# Platycheirus manicatus

Platycheirus manicatus is a species of hoverfly. It is found across the Palearctic and in Alaska.

## Description

External images For terms, see: Morphology of Diptera. Mouth edge is projecting beyond facial knob, and abdomen has four pairs of large yellow marks. Thorax dorsum is dull; tibiae and tarsi of leg 1 are diagnostic.

## Distribution

Palearctic: Fennoscandia south to Iberia, the Mediterranean basin, Ireland eastwards through Europe into Turkey and Russia then Siberia and the Altai. Nearctic: Alaska and Greenland.

## Biology

Habitat: fen, humid, grassland (to above 2,000 metres or 6,600 feet in the Alps), moorland and taiga. It flies May to September.

