Platycheirus podagratus is a species of hoverfly. It is found in the Holarctic.
Tibiae 1 is strongly and rapidly broadened on the apical third (slightly narrower apically than preapically). Leg 3 is black with a yellow knee. The abdomen is slender.
See references for determination.
Palearctic: Fennoscandia south to the Pyrenees, Ireland eastward through Northern Europe and mountainous parts of Central Europe into Russia and on to Southeast Siberia. Nearctic: Alberta and Ontario.
Habitat: Fen, margins of lakes, rivers and brooks in unimproved grassland, taiga and moor; unimproved montane and alpine grassland. It flies from the end of May to mid-August.