title: Platycheirus fulviventris
text: # Platycheirus fulviventris
  
  Platycheirus fulviventris is a Palearctic species of hoverfly. It is found in many parts of Britain and Europe.
  
  ## Description
  
  External images For terms, see: Morphology of Diptera. Femora 1 has dense black hairs along entire length. Tibia 1 is abruptly widened at mid-length, then parallel-sided to the tip. See references for determination.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Palearctic: Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin, Ireland east through Northern Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe into Turkey and European Russia and on to Siberia and the Russian Far East to the Pacific coast.
  
  ## Biology
  
  Habitat: marsh, fen, river margins of rivers and ditches in farmland. Flies May to August.
  
  