Palloptera umbellatarum
Length about 3 mm. This fly has a heavily spotted wing pattern, a grey thorax and abdomen and orangey legs.
Palloptera/Toxoneura modesta. Great care is needed to separate these two species.
Various habitats including meadows and hedgerows.
April to September.
Widespread in Britain.
Thought to be fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland but not well recorded in our area.
Lostash
Whetstone House 154
07 July 2013
Lostash
Whetstone House 154
07 July 2013
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
15 July 2013
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Flies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Pallopteridae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 07/07/2013 (Watson, Ashley)
- Last record:
- 23/07/2024 (Higgott, Mike)
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Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
15 July 2013
