| Platystoma lugubre | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Platystomatidae |
| Genus: | Platystoma |
| Species: | P. lugubre |
| Binomial name | |
| Platystoma lugubre (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) | |
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Platystoma lugubre is a species of fly in the family Platystomatidae.
Subspecies include: [1]
This species is present in most of Europe and in the Near East. [2]
These flies mainly inhabit the edges of forests, parks, gardens, woodlands, scrubs and cemeteries. [3]
Platystoma lugubre can reach a length of 6–10 millimetres (0.24–0.39 in). These medium-sized flies have a body mottled with greyish and yellow. The upperside of the abdomen is shiny black with two large spots of yellow gray pollonisity. The lower part of the abdomen is lemon yellow. The large eyes are reddish. Halteres are redish yellow. Legs are black. Wings are black, mottled with transparent spots. [3] [4]
This species is rather similar to Platystoma seminationis , but the latter is clearly smaller and quite common. [3]
Adults feed on nectar, while the larvae are coprophagous and develop on dead vertebrates, buried corpses and decomposing plant material. [3]
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