Sericomyiine flower flies are common in boreal forests across the Holarctic region and southward at higher elevations into the Oriental and Neotropical regions.

[1] Sericomyia species have larvae of the rat-tailed maggot type, often found in ponds rich in decomposing vegetation where they filter out microorganisms as their food [2][3][4] They have an oval flagellum with a plumose arista.

The eye are bare and narrowly to broadly holoptic in male.

The wings are darkly colored along the anterior margin.

The cell r4+5 with long petiole, longer than humeral crossvein.