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Platycheirus hyperboreus

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Species of fly

Platycheirus hyperboreus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Syrphinae
Tribe: Bacchini
Genus: Platycheirus
Subgenus: Platycheirus
Species: P. hyperboreus
Binomial name
Platycheirus hyperboreus
(Staeger, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Platycheirus chirosphena Hull, 1944
  • Platycheirus erraticus Curran, 1927
  • Syrphus hyperboreus Staeger, 1845

Platycheirus hyperboreus is a species of syrphid fly in the family Syrphidae. In N America hyperboreus is broadly distributed across Alaska, Canada, Greenland and the northern United States, ranging as far south as North Carolina in the east and Nevada. In western and northern Europe ranging from Norway, Finland, northern Russia (Kola peninsula) and on into northern Siberia.

References

  1. "Platycheirus hyperboreus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. Speight, M.C.D (2011). Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera), Glasgow2011 (PDF). Dublin: Syrph the Net publications.
  3. Skevington, Jeffrey H.; Locke, Michelle M.; Young, Andrew D.; Moran, Kevin; et al. (2019). Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. Princeton Field Guides. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691189406.
  4. Young, Andrew D (2012). A revision of the Nearctic species of Platycheirus Lepeletier and Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) (master of SCIENCE). University of Guelph. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
Taxon identifiers
Platycheirus hyperboreus


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