Limnia unguicornis

Limnia unguicornis
Limnia unguicornis North Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Sciomyzidae
Genus: Limnia
Species:
L. unguicornis
Binomial name
Limnia unguicornis
(Scopoli, 1763)
Synonyms

Limnia unguicornis is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic .[1]

The eyes have four purple longitudinal stripes, two medial and two marginal.The head is rufous with brown spots on each side: white face. The third segment of the antennae is blackish at apex the remainder brownish red.The arista is white. The brown ocellar plate is extended to the anterior margin in a depressed band.The thorax is rufous-brown with two grey mesonotal bands. The prothoracic bristles are ciliform. Rufous legs. The wings membrane is studded with numerous pale spots separated by a brown network.[2][3] For terms see Morphology of Diptera. Limnia unguicornis is carnivorous (occasionally coprophagous).Mature larvae have been recorded feeding on Succinea putris.[4]

References

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I' II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6 ISBN 81-205-0081-4
  3. ^ Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
  4. ^ Rozkošný, R., 1984 The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 14 ISBN 90-04-07592-5 Hardback (224 pp., 639 figures, in English)


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