Platycheirus occultus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera Tarsae 1: apical half of all segments without dark brown to black blotches ventrally.

Femora 1 black to dark brown for less than half its length.

[1] [2] Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, North Germany, France Switzerland, Spain and northern Italy (Apennines), Serbia, Turkey[3] Habitat: fen and bog, coastal marsh and dune slacks, humid, seasonally-flooded, grassland, moorland, taiga wetlands.

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