Platycheirus peltatus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.

Tibiae 2 is uniformly broadened from base to apex, sometimes with a further swelling on apical 1/5.

Short and broad tergites 6 and 7 and relatively broad posterior margin of tergite give the abdomen a blunt ended form.

[4][5][6][7] [8] Palearctic: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the Ardennes and Vosges mountains, the Loire floodplain, the Rhine valley, the Pyrenees and the Alps, the former Yugoslavia; Altai mountains (Siberia), and Japan.

[9][10][11] Habitat: fen and humid grassland and in association with tall herb vegetation of flushes in grassland; in open areas in humid Fagus, Abies forest.