''Pherbellia ventralis'' is a species of fly in the family

Sciomyzidae The family Sciomyzidae belongs to the typical flies (Brachycera) of the order Diptera. They are commonly called marsh flies, and in some cases snail-killing flies due to the food of their larvae. Here, the Huttoninidae, Phaeomyiidae and Teta ...

. It is found in the

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 ...

. ''Pherbellia ventralis'' is a small sciomyzid (body lengths up to 4.5 mm.). The body is dark grey blue to blue grey contrasting with the yellowish brown abdomen.The mid-frontal stripe is short. The larvae feed on aquatic snails including ''

Stagnicola palustris ''Stagnicola palustris'' is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. Taxonomy ''Stagnicola turricula'' is a synonym of ''Stagnicola palustris'', because t ...

'' .Lloyd Vernon Knutson and Jean-Claude Vala, 2011''Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies'' Cambridge University Press

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Sciomyzidae Insects described in 1820 Muscomorph flies of Europe {{Sciomyzoidea-stub