A list of hover-flies of Bolshoi Shantar Island (the Sea of Okhotsk) with description of a new species of the genus Platycheirus Lepeletier et Serville, 1828 (Diptera: Syrphidae)

Platycheirus shantar sp. n. is described and illustrated from Khabarov¬sky krai in Russia. The holotype of new species deposited the Federal Scientific Center East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Vladivostok, An annotated list 41 hover-flies discovered Bolshoi Shantar Island given; almost all them are recorded this island for first time.