| Phaonia pallida | |
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| Phaonia pallida, Female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Muscidae |
| Subfamily: | Phaoniinae |
| Tribe: | Phaoniini |
| Genus: | Phaonia |
| Species: | P. pallida |
| Binomial name | |
| Phaonia pallida (Fabricius, 1787) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Phaonia pallida, the muscid fly or orange muscid fly, is a species of fly in the family Muscidae. [1]
This species is distributed across parts of the Palearctic – Europe (including Sicily and the Azores), Russia, and Asia (Israel, Turkey, and Iran). [2] [3] These flies mainly inhabit deciduous forests and woodland, especially spruce forest edge. [4] [5]
Phaonia pallida can reach a length of about 5.5–7.9 millimetres (0.22–0.31 in). These flies have an orange body with a very hairy thorax. [4] [5] The antennae are composed by three articles and bear a feathery arista. The legs and the balancers are yellow, while the tarsi are black. The eyes are dark red, separated by a yellow marking in the females, while in males they are very close to each other. [6]
Adults fly from May to September, feeding on nectar of flowers (especially of Heracleum sphondylium ). [4] [5] [6] Its larvae have been found growing in various fungi ( Amanita rubescens , Clitocybe nebularis , Paralepista flaccida , Xerula radicata , Hymenopellis radicata , Amanita muscaria ) [6] but also in rotten wood and under tree bark. [5] [7] The last larval instar of Phaonia pallida is carnivorous, feeding on small insects. [5] [8]
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