Trichopsomyia flavitarsis is a European species of hoverfly.
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera<br> Wing length 4âÂÂ6 mm. Frons and face glittering black. Tergite 2 with a pair of yellow marks, without dust spots. Male tarsus 3 broad and flat, with snow-white pilosity. See references for determination.
A wetland and woodland species.
Palearctic Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees and north Spain. Ireland eastwards through North Europe and mountainous regions of Central Europe into European Russia and onto the Pacific coast.