Nemotelus notatus, the flecked snout, is a European species of soldier fly.
Description Length 5–6,5 mm. Male: the snout (rostellum) is short;the abdomen is white with black basal and apical spots and with a spot on the third segment (Seguy "sternites I-IV tachés de noir"), the venter is white with a black marginal spot. Female: the snout (rostellum) is short; the white spots above the antennae are triangular, not oblique and widely separated in the middle.Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrationsE. P. Narchuk in Bei-Bienko, G. Ya, 1988 Keys to the insects of the European Part of the USSR Volume 5 (Diptera) Part 2 English edition. Keys to Palaearctic species but now needs revision.William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London, 1902–1927. 7 vols
Biology The flight period is June to August. Habitats are salt marshes and other salt grounds. Larvae in saline water bodies. Adults are flower feeders on Crepis Cirsium, Senecio, Tripolium pannonicum and umbellifers and....
Distribution Northern and Central Europe, from southern Sweden to southern Germany and Austria. Siberia. Finland.
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