Nemotelus nigrinus
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| Nemotelus nigrinus, the "all-black snout" | |
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| Nemotelus nigrinus Fallén, 1817
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Nemotelus nigrinus, the all-black snout, is a Holarctic species of soldier fly.[1]
Description[]
A small species (4.0 to 4.8.mm). Cubital vein (R 4+5) unforked. Body all black, without any pale pattern. Frons without any white spots. The distance from the base of the antennae to the tip of the rostellum is greater than the distance from the antennal base to the commencement of the narrow part of the frons. Median outgrowths of hypandrium and outgrowth of basal segment of gonopodites are absent. Aedeagus with two basal projections at a right angle to the plane of aedeagus [2][3][4]
Biology[]
The flight period is May to July. Habitats are fens and marshes, flower meadows and flower rich grassland.
Distribution[]
North and Central Europe, North and South USSR, Caucasus, Siberia, Central Asia, Mongolia, North America.
References[]
- ^ Stubbs, A. & Drake, M. (2001). British Soldierflies and Their Allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 512 pp. ISBN 1-899935-04-5.
- ^ Seguy. E. Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.
- ^ George Henry Verrall Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain - British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrations
- ^ E. P. Narchuk in Bei-Bienko, G. Ya, 1988 Keys to the insects of the European Part of the USSR Volume 5 (Diptera) Part 2 English edition. Keys to Palaearctic species but now needs revision.
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