Anasimyia lineata
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Anasimyia |
| Species: | A. lineata |
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Anasimyia lineata (Fabricius, 1787) |
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Anasimyia lineata is a Palaearctican species of hoverfly.
External images The face protrudes forwards as a long snout which tapers to a point.The body has dark ground colour.The male has triangular orange markings on the tergites (especially on tergite 2).Female markings are orange or grey.The stigma is in the form of a dark patch between the veins.
Keys and accounts
Wetlands including bog, fen and marsh, pond-side and riverine fen and alluvial wetlands, such as oxbow lakes. Flowers visited include Alisma plantago-aquatica, , Caltha, Cardamine pratense, Cicuta viros, Lythrum salicaria, Menyanthes trifoliata, Nymphaea alba, Potentilla anserina, Ranunculus, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Sorbus aucuparia, Crataegus and Anthriscus sylvestris The larva is aquatic and microphagous in rotting plant debris. It is illustrated by Rotheray (1993)
Entire temperate Palearctic.
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