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Anasimyia lineata

Anasimyia lineata
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Anasimyia lineata female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Anasimyia
Species: A. lineata
Binomial name
Anasimyia lineata
(Fabricius, 1787)

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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