Species Rhagio lineola - Small Fleck-winged Snipe Fly

Classification · Size · Identification · Food · Remarks · Internet References

Rhagionidae to identify please... - Rhagio lineola - 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 lineola (Small Fleck-winged Snipe Fly)

Size

6 to 8 mm

Identification

"Distinguished by its dorsal triangles on the abdomen and mesonotum hair entirely light coloured." -- comment by C. Ho

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Food

Adults are predators of smaller flies and other insects. Larvae feed on earthworms and beetle larvae.

Remarks

Introduced, probably from Europe, very common in England

Internet References

~ Diptera information

~ Natue spot UK

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

Contributed by Tom Bentley on 16 August, 2010 - 12:50pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 14 April, 2017 - 9:14pm

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