Yellow-barred Peat Hover Fly

Sericomyia silentis

''Sericomyia silentis'', is a species of hoverfly. It is widespread throughout the Palearctic but normally encountered in small numbers in mountain regions and moorland and bog locations.
Bog hoverfly On a scrape by Lyvennet beck. Bog Hoverfly,Cumbria,Kings Meaburn,Sericomyia silentis

Appearance

For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 9 ·5–14 mm. Pregenital segment yellow. Legs yellowish, base of femorae black. Tergites 2-4 dark yellow side-stripes widen towards tergite margins.
See references for determination
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Distribution

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees. Ireland East through North Europe and Central Europe into Russia and the Caucasus and on to Siberia, the Russian Far East and Japan.
Yellow-barred Peat Hover Fly - Sericomyia silentis It refers to the big hoverfly in the image. Giethoorn, Holland (Aug, 2013). Geotagged,Netherlands,Sericomyia silentis,Summer,Yellow-barred Peat Hover Fly

Behavior

Habitat: wet moorland, valley bog, fen and ''Alnus'', ''Salix'' carr.
Flies May to October.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderDiptera
FamilySyrphidae
GenusSericomyia
SpeciesS. silentis
Photographed in
United Kingdom
Netherlands