Anasimyia contracta | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Syrphidae |
Genus: | Anasimyia |
Species: | A. contracta
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Binomial name | |
Anasimyia contracta Claussen & Torp, 1980
[1]
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Anasimyia contracta is a European species of hoverfly. [2] [3] [4]
The wing length 5 to 7.5 mm. Tergite 2 is narrower than it is long and it has greyish 'hockey stick' shaped markings. A. transfuga has similar markings but with tergite 2 parallel sided and wider than long.
A wetland species found near ponds with Typha, especially in fens. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Menyanthes, Ranunculus, Myosotis, Potentilla palustris, Sorbus aucuparia and Potentilla palustris [5] [6] The larva has been found among debris of dead Typha stalks beneath the water surface.
West Palearctic Ireland eastwards through central Europe to European Russia. [7] [8]
Anasimyia contracta | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Syrphidae |
Genus: | Anasimyia |
Species: | A. contracta
|
Binomial name | |
Anasimyia contracta Claussen & Torp, 1980
[1]
|
Anasimyia contracta is a European species of hoverfly. [2] [3] [4]
The wing length 5 to 7.5 mm. Tergite 2 is narrower than it is long and it has greyish 'hockey stick' shaped markings. A. transfuga has similar markings but with tergite 2 parallel sided and wider than long.
A wetland species found near ponds with Typha, especially in fens. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Menyanthes, Ranunculus, Myosotis, Potentilla palustris, Sorbus aucuparia and Potentilla palustris [5] [6] The larva has been found among debris of dead Typha stalks beneath the water surface.
West Palearctic Ireland eastwards through central Europe to European Russia. [7] [8]