Platycheirus sticticus is a species of hoverfly.

[1][2] External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera Tibiae 1 only slightly dilated at apex and with only scattered short, hair-like lateral bristles, yellow with a dark lateral marking at midlength.

See references for determination[3][4][5][6] Palearctic Southern Sweden and Denmark South to the Pyrenees and North Spain.

Ireland East through Central Europe into Russia and on to eastern Siberia.

[7][8] Habitat Picea, Pinus plantation and Quercus woodland.