Aulacigaster leucopeza
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Aulacigaster leucopeza is a fly fromthe Aulacigastridae family .
features
The flies reach a body length of about three millimeters. Her face is dusted white, an unpolluted yellow-brown cross band runs between the compound eyes and the antennae. On the red-brown compound eyes there are two gold-green cross bars. The third part of the antennae is rounded. The animals have two pairs of strongly developed vibrissae bristles . The legs are apart from the two first light Tarsenglieder , colored brown-black.
Occurrence and way of life
The animals are found in Western, Central, Southern and Northern Europe. The adults appear in May and feed on tree sap that leaks from wounds. This is also where their larvae develop.
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aulacigaster leucopeza (Meigen 1830). Fauna Europaea, accessed December 13, 2009 .
literature
- Joachim Haupt, Hiroko Haupt: Flies and Mosquitoes. Observation, way of life . 1st edition. Naturbuch-Verlag, Jena and Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-89440-278-4 .