''Neoascia meticulosa'' is a species of hoverfly.

Description

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Wing length 4.5–5 mm. Mouth edge protruding no more than a distance equal to 1/2 the horizontal diameter of an eye. Tibiae 1 and tibiae 2 yellow. Male abdomen black with yellow spots. Female abdomen broad and usually entirely black. Barkemeyer & Claussen (1986) figure the male genitalia. The larva is figured by Hartley (1961)) See references for determination. The male genitalia are illustrated by Barkemeyer and Claussen (1986)

Distribution

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

Fennoscandia South to North Spain, the Alps, Italy and Yugoslavia. Ireland East through North Europe and Central Europe into European Russia and the Caucasus. East through Siberia to

Lake Baikal Lake Baikal (, russian: Oзеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal ); mn, Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur) is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Repu ...

Biology

Habitat: Wetlands, fens, ponds and stream margins. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, ''Anemone nemorosa'', ''Caltha'', ''Cardamine'', ''Ficaria verna'', ''Galium'', ''Prunus avium'', ''Ranunculus'', ''Salix'', ''Sorbus aucuparia'', ''Taraxacum''. de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. ''Doc.Trav.'' IRSNB, no.60, 1-167. The flight period is end April to June. The larva is aquatic and has found beneath the outer leaves of rotting ''Typha'' stems.

References

Diptera of Europe Brachyopini Insects described in 1763 Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli {{Brachyopini-stub