Platycheirus manicatus
Platycheirus manicatus is a species of hoverfly. It is found across the Palearctic and in Alaska.
Description of males
- Spheight's Key to Genera of European Syrphidae with Morphological terms.
- Glossary of morphological terminology of adult Syrphidae, Steenis
- Picture key to Nearctic syrphid genera, Miranda et al.
The legs are dark, but with short tip of femora and connection of the tibiae pale. The first two tarsomeres of the foreleg are very pale. The first front tarsomere is nearly triangular, about 2.5 times as wide as the tip of the tibia, and slightly longer than wide. The second front tarsomere is nearly rectangular, three-quarters as wide as the first tarsomere, and one-quarter as long. The remaining fore tarsomeres are unmodified. The fore tibia has several fine, wavy setae on the outer half of the bottom surface, with the longest setae being approximately three times the tibial width. The middle tibia has sparse, wavy, posterodorsal, and posterior pile on the outer half, with the longest pile being about four times as long as the tibial diameter. The first tarsomere of the hind leg is strongly swollen. The rest of the legs are unchanged. The entire thorax is strongly yellow or grey powdery, with dense thoracic pile, half pale and half dark. The halter is yellow, and the wing is completely microtrichose. The abdomen is narrowly oval, with spots of tergites 2-4 being yellow, longer than wide, and separated from the anterior and lateral margins of the tergites. The female has small yellow spots on tergite 5
image:Syrphid leg diagram.png | Legs
image:Head diagram.png| Head
image:Syrphidae wing veins.svg| Wing
image: Syrphid body1.png|Body