Sphegina elegans

Sphegina elegans is a species of hoverfly.

Description
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera Wing length 5-6·75 mm. Humerus pale, yellow or orange. 3rd antennomere large. Mesonotum shining black, pollinose only on margins. Tarsi 1 and 2 pale. Wing hyaline. See references for determination.

Distribution
Palearctic Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees and Spain. Ireland East through Central Europe and Southern Europe (northern Italy, the former Yugoslavia, northern Greece) into European Russia to the Caucasus mountains. Also Samos (Greece).

Biology
Habitat: Fagus and Quercus and other woodland, flying in partial shade and near streams.