One of the Cheilosia species with bare eyes, long wings, partially pale legs and fused antennal pits.

[1][2] [3][4][5][6][7] From Fennoscandia south to North Africa from England eastwards through Europe into Central Asia, Siberia, the Russian Far East and Japan.

[8][9] The habitat Fagus and Quercus (including Quercus suber) old forest and alluvial softwood forest of Salix and Populus.

Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Cirsium, Taraxacum.

The undescribed larva feeds on Basidiomycota.