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Red-belted Awl-fly
Xylophagus cinctus
Xylophagus cinctus is a species of fly in the family Xylophagidae. It is found in Europe.
From the article Xylophagus cinctus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Venation simple.The discal cell is placed rather far out on the wing, with smaller posterior cells, as in Tipulidae. Clouding on forks and crossveins. It differs from Xylophagus ater in the following respects. The first antenna! segment is short ;not more than twice as long as second segment;the metapleural lobes are hairy The thorax in both sexes is entirely dulled by greyish dusting, which is rather more rather more prominent in certain longitudinal stripes.Females have a red abdomen. Males are all-black. Wing length 11.5mm ; body length up to 17mm.
Range & habitat
Europe, Russia, China, Alaska to Quebec, south to California & Mississippi.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 739458.