Neoascia obliqua


Neoascia obliqua is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.

Description

For terms see Morphology of Diptera

The 3rd segment of the antenna is elongated-oval as in N. podagrica F.
. Yellow spots along sides of tergite 4 are absent. Surstyli are irregularly trapezoidal.

Distribution

Scandinavia South to the Pyrenees. Ireland East through Central Europe, European Russia, Yugoslavia and the Caucasus.

Habitat

Wetlands and wet places with tall herb communities.

Biology

Flies among vegetation along the water's edge from the end of Aprilto th beginning of August. Flowers visited white umbellifers, Galium,
Ranunculus, Taraxacum.