Palearctic: Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin, Ireland east through Northern Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe into Turkey and European Russia and on to Siberia and the Russian Far East to the Pacific coast.[9][10][11]
Biology
Habitat: marsh, fen, river margins of rivers and ditches in farmland. Flies May to August.
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