About Platycheirus scutatus (Meigen, 1822)
This species falls under the morphological terms defined for Diptera. Its face features two large, silver-grey dust spots. On its wing, the second tibia is bent inward one-third from the apex, and only has short lateral hairs. The fourth tergite is elongated. Refer to the provided references for species determination. Its distribution includes the Palearctic realm, ranging from Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin, extending east from Ireland through Northern, Central, and Southern Europe into Turkey and European Russia, and continuing through Siberia to the Pacific coast and Japan. In the Nearctic realm, it occurs from Alaska south to Colorado. For further information, see Speight (2011).
