Oplodontha viridula
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Oplodontha viridula is a gun fly .
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Oplodontha viridula ♀ |
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features
The green gun fly also has the scutellum, typical of gun flies, with two thorns. The breast is shiny gold-green, metallic. The abdomen green or yellowish, more rarely also reddish with a black band of variable shape and size. The antennae and scutellum are all black. The eyes in life with ribbons and spots that only meet on the forehead in the male. Body length: 6 to 9 mm. 1st antennal segment at most twice as long as 2nd, disc cell very narrow. Odontomyia angulata is similar , but with orange antennae and partly green scutellum and no dark markings on the eyes. Odontomyia hydroleon also has partially green scutellum but with black antennae.
The larva is light or dark brownish with different longitudinal stripes or markings. On the back side she has short, depressed hair, on the belly side the middle areas of the segments are a little longer. The length is 16 mm. The larvae live in the water.
Occurrence
Southern Europe, Central Europe, Southern Northern Europe, near standing water.
literature
- Erwin Stresemann: Excursion fauna of Germany . Spectrum, Akad. Verl. Bd. 2 Invertebrate insects. - 9th edition - 2000, ISBN 3-8274-0922-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oplodontha viridula at Naturspaziergang.de, accessed on January 11, 2020
- ↑ Excursion fauna of Germany, Vol. 2 Invertebrate insects. - 9th edition - 2000
- ↑ [1] at diptera.info, accessed on January 11, 2020
- ↑ [2] at diptera.info, accessed on January 11, 2020
- ↑ [3] English version of Oplodontha_viridula, accessed on January 11, 2020
- ↑ Oplodontha viridula profile at Insektenbox.de, accessed on January 11, 2020