''Neoascia podagrica'' is a species of

hoverfly Hover flies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while ...

Description

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Morphology of Diptera Dipteran morphology differs in some significant ways from the broader morphology of insects. The Diptera is a very large and diverse order of mostly small to medium-sized insects. They have prominent compound eyes on a mobile head, and (at most) ...

Metapleurae form a continuous band behind coxae 3. Antennomere 3 twice as long as broad and wing veins tm and tp brownish. Male tergite with straight yellow band. The larva is figured by Hartley (1961) The male genitalia are illustrated by Barkemeyer and Claussen (1986). See references for determination.

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 Iberia Mediterranean basin East through North Europe, Central Europe and South Europe (Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece) to Turkey and Israel, European Russia into Siberia as far as Lake Baikal.

Biology

Habitat: wetlands and alluvial forest, pond margins and fen, wet pasture, along wet ditches, around farmyards, canal banks, suburban gardens, rubbish dumps and parks. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, ''Achillea millefolium'', ''Allium ursinum'', ''Caltha'', ''Chelidonium'', ''Convolvulus'', ''Crataegus'', ''Euphorbia'', ''Leontodon'', ''Menyanthes'', ''Plantago'', ''Potentilla erecta'', ''Ranunculus'', ''Salix repens'', ''Senecio jacobaea'', ''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 April to October. The larvae are sub-aquatic, occurring in cow-dung, slurry and dung-enriched mud.

References

Diptera of Europe Eristalinae Insects described in 1775 Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius {{Syrphidae-stub