External images Melanogaster hirtella is a European species of hoverfly.

Female thoracic dorsum with long, erect black to grey hairs.

The male genitalia are figured by Maibach and Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1994).

[8][9] Wetland, fen, marsh, waterside pasture, along woodland streams, beside ponds, lakes, and rivers.

[9] Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Caltha, Euphorbia, Iris pseudacorus, Menyanthes, Mimulus guttatus, Potentilla erecta, Pyrus communis, Ranunculus, Sorbus aucuparia, Taraxacum, Viburnum opulus.