Spania nigra

Spania nigra
Spania nigrain Meigen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Rhagionidae
Subfamily: Spaniinae
Genus: Spania
Species:
S. nigra
Binomial name
Spania nigra
Meigen, 1830

Spania nigra, is a species of 'snipe flies' belonging to the family Rhagionidae.

It is a Palearctic species with a limited distribution in Europe

Description

Tiny black flies without a true style, but the ventral margin of the last antennal segment is produced into a pseudostyle. Vein M3 usually does not reach the wing-margin. Metapleura bare.

Biology

The larvae are thallus-miners of thallose liverworts.

References

  1. ↑ Meigen JW (1830). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. (Volume 6) (PDF) (in German). Schulz-Wundermann. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-09.
  2. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  3. ↑ Van Veen Key Identification.
  4. ↑ Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera Brachycera: Tabanoidea and Asiloidea (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/4) Royal Entomological Society, London
  5. ↑ Lindner, E., 1924-38, Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region 24 : (Brachycera). Stuttgart.