Biotoop: Aapamire, acid, acid fen, alpine, alpine, atlantic salt meadow, betula, bog, brook edge, brook edge, brook/river edge in open, calcareous, canal edge, cliff and rock, coastal beaches & dunes, coastal dunes, drainage ditch in open, dry/semi-arid, dune slacks, edge permanent pool in open, eutrophic, eutrophic, flooded, eutrophic, non-flooded, flush in open, flush in wetland, grassy clearings/tracksides, heath, helocrene, humid/flooded, improved grassland, intensive grassland, limestone pavement, lowland, machair, marsh, mature, moor, mountain pine forest (general), no stones, oligotrophic, oligotrophic, molinia, overmature, raised bog, rheocrene, rock, cliff, moraine and scree, running, edge, running water, salt marsh, saplings, spring in wetland, springs/flushes, tall herb communities, tundra, western taiga, with stones. (source: Speight, M. et al. 2001. Syrph the Net on CD, Issue 1)

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