''Nemotelus notatus'', the flecked snout, is a European species of

soldier fly The soldier flies (Stratiomyidae, sometimes misspelled as Stratiomyiidae, from Greek - soldier; - fly) are a family of flies (historically placed in the now-obsolete group Orthorrhapha). The family contains over 2,700 species in over 380 extan ...

Description

Length 5–6,5 mm. Male: the snout (rostellum) is short;the abdomen is white with black basal and apical spots and with a spot on the third segment (Seguy "sternites I-IV tachés de noir"), the venter is white with a black marginal spot. Female: the snout (rostellum) is short; the white spots above the antennae are triangular, not oblique and widely separated in the middle. William Lundbeck ''Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark''. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols

Biology

The flight period is June to August. Habitats are salt marshes and other salt grounds. Larvae in saline water bodies. Adults are flower feeders on '' Crepis'' '' Cirsium'', '' Senecio'',

Tripolium pannonicum ''Tripolium pannonicum'', called sea aster or seashore aster and often known by the synonyms ''Aster tripolium'' or ''Aster pannonicus'', is a flowering plant, native to Eurasia and northern Africa, that is confined in its distribution to salt ma ...

and umbellifers and....

Distribution

Northern and Central Europe, from southern Sweden to southern Germany and Austria. Siberia. Finland.

References

Stratiomyidae Diptera of Europe Insects described in 1842 {{Stratiomyidae-stub