Nemotelus pantherinus

Nemotelus pantherinus
Nemotelus pantherinus female
Nemotelus pantherinus male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Stratiomyidae
Genus: Nemotelus
Subgenus: Camptopelta
Species:
N. pantherinus
Binomial name
Nemotelus pantherinus
Synonyms

Nemotelus pantherinus, the fen snout, is a European species of soldier fly.[4][5][6]

Description

Black. – Male has a white frons; the abdomen is white at the base and black at the tip. Female: The abdomen is edged with white with a row of white dorsal spots. The legs are black; the ends of the femurs, tibias, and tarsi yellowish and the middle of the third tibias brown. Wings glassy with white veins. Halters yellow or whitish. - L. 3.5-5 mm. [7]

Biology

It is found in wetlands and dune slacks.

References

  1. 1 2 Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae... Ed. 10, Vol. 1. Holmiae [= Stockholm]: L. Salvii. pp. 824 pp. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  2. ↑ Loew, H. (1846). "Bemerkungen über die Gattung Beris und Beschreibung eines Zwitters von Beris nitens". Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung. 7: 282–289. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 Fabricius, J.C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig]: Kortii. pp. [32] + 832. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  4. ↑ Woodley, N.E. (2001). "A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera)". Myia. 11: 1–462. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256pp. ISBN 9789051070682.
  7. ↑ Seguy, E. 1927 Faune de France 13: Diptères (Brachycères) (Stratiomyiidæ, Erianidæ, Cænomyiidæ, Rhagionidæ, Tabanidæ, Codidæ, Nemestrinidæ, Mydaidæ, Romoyiidæ, Therevidæ, Omphralidæ) Lechevalier editions (Paris: Éditions Faune de France)