Nemotelus uliginosus, the barred snout, is a Palearctic species of soldier fly.[2][3][4]
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| Nemotelus uliginosus North Wales | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Stratiomyidae |
| Genus: | Nemotelus |
| Subgenus: | Camptopelta |
| Species: | N. uliginosus
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| Nemotelus uliginosus | |
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Description
editLength 5—5,5 mm. Male: the abdomen is white with black spots. The cubital vein is forked. The venter is black with white incisures and a white spot. Female: the snout (rostellum) is long, the white spots above the antennae are linear and oblique, nearly meeting in the middle.[5][6][7] [8]
Biology
editThe habitat is saltmarsh, waste ground and unimproved grassland, usually coastal. Adults are found from June to early September, peaking in July. Adults feed on pollen and nectar including that of Alisma plantago-aquatica, Cirsium, umbelliferae
Distribution
editNorth, South USSR Siberia, Kazakhstan. North and Central Europe, in north to middle Sweden and in South to northern France. North Africa
References
edit- ^ a b Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae ... Ed. 12 (revised.) Vol. 1 (2). Holmiae [= Stockholm]: L.Salvii. pp. 533-1327 + [37] pp.
- ^ Woodley, N.E. (2001). "A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera)". Myia. 11: 1–462. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256pp. ISBN 9789051070682.
- ^ Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.
- ^ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrations
- ^ E. P. Narchuk in Bei-Bienko, G. Ya, 1988 Keys to the insects of the European Part of the USSR Volume 5 (Diptera) Part 2 English edition. Keys to Palaearctic species but now needs revision.
- ^ William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols
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