Red-brown dance bow tie

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Red-brown dance bow tie
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Red-brown dance fly ( Empis stercorea )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Fly (Diptera)
Subordination : Flies (Brachycera)
Family : Dancing flies (Empididae)
Genre : Empis
Type : Red-brown dance bow tie
Scientific name
Empis stercorea
Linnaeus , 1761

The red-brown dance fly ( Empis stercorea ) is a fly from the family of dance flies (Empididae).

features

The red-brown dance fly is a large species of the genus Empis . The males reach a body length of 5.2 to 7.5 mm and a wing length of 6.6 to 9 mm. The females reach 6.8 to 9.2 mm and a wing length of 7 to 8.3 mm. The wings are almost transparent with dark, yellowish wing veins near the base and a distinct brownish costal spot . The thorax is yellow to reddish yellow. A narrow, black line runs median on the mesonotum and becomes somewhat wider at the scutellum and metanotum . The abdomen is yellow with a distinct dark, dorsal median line. On the back of the head behind the ocelles there is a black, rhomboid-shaped spot.

distribution

The red-brown dance fly can be found in Europe - with the exception of the Iberian Peninsula . Occasionally, it stays in grassy locations of mesophilic forests or near hedges from May to July .

biology

The red-brown dance fly eats insects or drinks nectar e.g. B. of umbellifers or garlic mustard ( Alliaria petiolata ) and dandelion ( Taraxacum ).

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Carl von Linné in his work Fauna Svecica in 1761 .

Web links

Commons : Empis stercorea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Milan Chvála: The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark: Genus Empis. III. Brill Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-9004096639 , p. 160.
  2. ↑ Igor V. Shamshev: Revision of the genus Empis Linnaeus (Diptera: Empididae) from Russia and Neighboring lands. I sub-genus Xanthempis Bezzi. In: Int. J. Dipterol. Res. , 1998, 9 (2), p 147. ( Online )
  3. ↑ http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/129112-Empis-stercorea
  4. ↑ a b Red-brown dance fly at www.digital-nature.de
  5. ↑ James Keith Lindsey: The Ecology of Commanster. Empis stercorea
  6. ^ C. Linnaeus: Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciæ Regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. Distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium, descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. - pp. [1-48], 1-578, pl. [1], Tab. I-II [= 1-2]. Stockholmiæ. (L. Salvii). P. 467. ( Online )