Nemotelus nigrinus

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Nemotelus nigrinus
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Nemotelus nigrinus, the "all-black snout"
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Stratiomyidae
Genus: Nemotelus
Subgenus: Camptopelta
Species:
N. nigrinus
Binomial name
Nemotelus nigrinus
Fallén, 1817 [1]
Synonyms

Nemotelus nigrinus, the all-black snout, is a Holarctic species of soldier fly. [6] [7] [8]

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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 [9] [10] [11]

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.

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References

  1. ↑ Fallén, C.F. (1817). Tabani et Xylophagei Sveciae. Lundae [=Lund]: Berlingianis. p. 14.
  2. ↑ Walker, F. (1849). List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 485–687.
  3. 1 2 Loew, Hermann (1863). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria tertia". Berl. Entomol. Z. 7: 1–55. doi:10.1002/mmnd.18630070104 . Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Loew, H. (1869). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria octava". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 13: 1–52. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  5. ↑ Loew, Hermann (1872). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria decima". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 16: 49–124. doi:10.1002/mmnd.18720160110 . Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Woodley, N.E. (2001). "A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera)". Myia. 11: 1–462. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  7. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E; Drake, Martin (2014). British Soldierflies and their allies (an illustrated guide to their identification and ecology) (2 ed.). Reading: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 528 pp, 20 plates. ISBN   9781899935079.
  8. ↑ Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256pp. ISBN   9789051070682.
  9. ↑ Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.
  10. ↑ George Henry Verrall Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain - British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrations
  11. ↑ 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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