Anasimyia lunulata

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Anasimyia lunulata
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Anasimyia lunulata in Meigen Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 7)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Anasimyia
Species:
A. lunulata
Binomial name
Anasimyia lunulata
(Meigen, 1822)

Anasimyia lunulata is a European species of hoverfly. [1] [2] [3]

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Description

External images The wing length is 5 ·75-8 ·5 mm. Face extends beyond antennal knob in side view but is not pointed (see Anasimyia lineata ). Male tergite 4 black pattern in the form of a V.Tergite 3 pale markings straight along posterior edge. Female tergites 3 and 4 with markings which are transverse along their posterior edge. Antennae entirely pale orange. The male genitalia are figured by Van der Goot (1981) [4]

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Habitat.Kaltenbronn.Germany

Habits

A peatland (valley bogs and transition mires, cutover bogs) species found in similar habitats to Parhelophilus consimilis . More generally wetland including margins of dystrophic lakes, ponds and pools with Menyanthes and taiga wetlands. Flowers visited include Menyanthes, white umbels, Caltha, Ranunculus. [5] [6] Flies May to end August. The larva is aquatic and microphagous in rotting plant debris.

Distribution

A. lunulata is a Palearctic species with a wide distribution in Europe [7] East to central Siberia.

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References

  1. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN   1-899935-03-7.
  2. ↑ Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN   1-870393-54-6.
  3. ↑ Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN   90-5011-199-8.
  4. ↑ Van der Goot, V.S. (1981) De zweefvliegen van Noordwest - Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux. KNNV, Uitgave no.32: 275pp. Amsterdam.
  5. ↑ de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1-167.
  6. ↑ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
  7. ↑ Fauna Europaea
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