| Platycheirus | |
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| Platycheirus clypeatus female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Bacchini |
| Genus: | Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828[1] |
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Platycheirus is a large genus of hoverflies.[2] They are also called sedgesitters.[3]
- ^ Le Peletier, Amédée Louis Michel, de Saint Fargeau; Serville, ean Guillaume Audinet (1828). In: Latreille, P. A., A. L. M. Lepeletier, J. G. A. Serville, & F. E. Guérin-Méneville. Entomologie, Ou Histoire Naturelle Des Crustacés, Des Arachnides Et Des Insectes. In: Encyclopédie methodique, Histoire naturelle. Vol. tome dixième. Paris: Agasse. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
- ^ "Flower Flies". profils-profiles.science.gc.ca. 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2021-02-27.