Nemorilla floralis
5-8mm. Boldly patterned in greys (like a small Sarcophaga). Hairy eyes and a bare arista. The thorax has a broad, dark medial stripe - widening away from the head and four pairs of post-sutural dorsocentrals. The parafacialia are more or less bare under the frontal bristles. The dark scutellum has a pair of crossed apical bristles that are much shorter than the subapicals.
Various habitats.
May to July.
This is a member of a group of parisitoid flies that lay their eggs on or in the larvae of other insects.
Fairly widespread in southern Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Flies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Tachinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 04/10/2009 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 05/10/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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