Platycheirus scambus is a species of hoverfly. It is a Holarctic species.
Baccha elongata is a species of hoverfly in the genus Baccha.
Platycheirus fulviventris is a Palearctic species of hoverfly. It is found in many parts of Britain and Europe.
Platycheirus manicatus is a species of hoverfly. It is found across the Palearctic and in Alaska.
Platycheirus splendidus is a species of hoverfly. It is found in many parts of Britain and Europe.
Ferdinandea is a genus of syrphid flies or hoverflies in the family Syrphidae. There are about 16 described species in Ferdinandea.
Lejops is a genus of hoverflies, closely related to the genera Helophilus, Quichuana and Mallota.
Parhelophilus consimilis is a Palearctic hoverfly.
Platycheirus ambiguus is a small widespread species of hoverfly found across the Palearctic from Ireland to Japan. A spring species found in flight in April and May, it visits spring-flowering trees and shrubs, e.g., Prunus spinosa in deciduous woodland and scrub.
Platycheirus amplus is a Holarctic species of hoverfly found in wetlands, fens, moorland streams and bogs.
Platycheirus angustatus is a species of hoverfly. It is found in many parts of the Palearctic, and in the Nearctic.
Platycheirus aurolateralis is a species of hoverfly. Only described in 2002, it has so far only been recorded in southern Britain.
Platycheirus europaeus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly. It is found in many parts of Europe and eastern Asiatic Russia The habitat is brook floodplains and wet flushes in montane grassland and beside streams or flushes in forest in the Carpinus and Quercus zone up into the Fagus and Picea/ Pinus zone. Flies among grasses from May to August. Flowers visited include Graminae and Cyperaceae, Ranunculus, Taraxacum.
Platycheirus perpallidus is a species of hoverfly. It is a Holarctic species.
Platycheirus podagratus is a species of hoverfly. It is found in the Holarctic.
Paragus tibialis, is a species of hoverfly found in many parts of Europe and North Africa. It has a preference for drier areas and its larvae feed on root aphids.
Paragus haemorrhous,the Black-backed Grass Skimmer is a common widespread species of hoverfly found in many parts of Europe, Africa and the Nearctic. Hoverflies can remain nearly motionless in flight. The adults are also known as flower flies for they are commonly found on flowers from which they get both energy-giving nectar and protein-rich pollen. The larvae are predators on aphids.
Paragus constrictus is a species of hoverfly. It is found in Southern Sweden and Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Germany, the French Alps, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia and Turkey and Russia east of the Urals. This species may be distinguished from Paragus tibialis only by the shape of the male parameres. In both sexes it shares with P. tibialis the character of entirely pale-haired abdominal tergites, so it is distinct from Paragus haemorrhous which has dark hairs. Images representing Paragus constrictus
Melanostoma dubium is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.
Epistrophe melanostoma is a European species of hoverfly.
