Trichopsomyia flavitarsis
# Trichopsomyia flavitarsis

Trichopsomyia flavitarsis is a European species of hoverfly.

## Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera Wing length 4–6 mm. Frons and face glittering black. Tergite 2 with a pair of yellow marks, without dust spots. Male tarsus 3 broad and flat, with snow-white pilosity. See references for determination.

## Habits

A wetland and woodland species.

## Distribution

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees and north Spain. Ireland eastwards through North Europe and mountainous regions of Central Europe into European Russia and onto the Pacific coast.

