Species Rhagio tringarius - Marsh Snipe Fly

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Remarks · See Also · Internet References

Perhaps some sort of Snipe Fly? - Rhagio tringarius - female

What fly please - Rhagio tringarius - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Tabanomorpha

Family Rhagionidae (Snipe Flies)

Genus Rhagio

Species tringarius (Marsh Snipe Fly)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhagio tringarius, (Linnaeus, 1758)

Explanation of Names

Author: Linnaeus, 1758

Identification

clear wings, yellow abdomen with black dorsal spots, and the black abdomen tergites at the posterior end (comment by Christmas C.Y. Ho).

Also, see comments by Christmas C.Y. Ho on the first image below:

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Remarks

Introduced from Europe, perhaps in the fifties; it has spread widely since then.

See Also

Rhagio vertebrata - see comments here.

Internet References

~ Encyclopedia of Life

~ Commanster

~ BOLDSYSTEMS website page for Rhagio tringarius - Specimens identified by DNA testing

Contributed by tom murray on 2 July, 2009 - 8:33pm
Additional contributions by Tom Bentley, Steve Nanz, Beatriz Moisset, Fyn Kynd, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 14 April, 2017 - 9:43pm

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