[1][2] External images Wing length: 5.25–8.5 mm (0.207–0.335 in).The face is narrower and shinier than in Melangyna labiatarum .

In males, the sides of the face are almost parallel and the eyes are very slightly hairy.

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees and northern Spain.

Then East into European Russia and Siberia from the Urals to the Pacific coast (Kuril Islands) Nearctic Alaska South through the Rocky mountains to New Mexico.

[11] Arboreal, but descends to visit flowers of white Umbelliferae, Galium, Sorbus aucuparia.