Limnia unguicornis | |
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Limnia unguicornis North Wales | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Sciomyzidae |
Genus: | Limnia |
Species: | L. unguicornis
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Binomial name | |
Limnia unguicornis (Scopoli, 1763)
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Limnia unguicornis is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic .[1]
The eyes have four purple longitudinal stripes, two medial and two marginal.The head is rufous with brown spots on each side: white face. The third segment of the antennae is blackish at apex the remainder brownish red.The arista is white. The brown ocellar plate is extended to the anterior margin in a depressed band.The thorax is rufous-brown with two grey mesonotal bands. The prothoracic bristles are ciliform. Rufous legs. The wings membrane is studded with numerous pale spots separated by a brown network.[2][3] For terms see Morphology of Diptera. Limnia unguicornis is carnivorous (occasionally coprophagous).Mature larvae have been recorded feeding on Succinea putris.[4]