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Neoascia
Sign in to saveNeoascia is a genus of small black and yellow or mostly black flies with a narrow abdomen near the thorax. They occur mainly in damp places among low herbage. The larva of Neoascia are flattened without oral hooks and a have a short posterior spiracular process or "tail", and are saprophagous. In 1925 Curran reviewed the genus Neoascia . In this work a key is provided and ten species are described including four new species some of which have later been determined to be synonyms.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 148
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Collections
- MCGILL UNIVERSITY, UAM
- Recorded in
- Canada, United States
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Neoascia is a genus of small black and yellow or mostly black flies with a narrow abdomen near the thorax. They occur mainly in damp places among low herbage. The larva of Neoascia are flattened without oral hooks and a have a short posterior spiracular process or "tail", and are saprophagous. In 1925 Curran reviewed the genus Neoascia . In this work a key is provided and ten species are described including four new species some of which have later been determined to be synonyms.
==Species== N. amurensis Mutin, 1993 N. anassa Reemer & Hippa, 2005 N. bipunctata (Matsumura, 1919) N. clausseni Hauser & Kassebeer, 1998 N. confusa Mutin, 1993 N. distincta Williston, 1887 N. globosa (Walker, 1849) N. guttata Skevington & Moran, 2019 N. inexpectata Hauser, 1998 N. nana Reemer & Hippa, 2005 N. subannexa Claussen & Hayat, 1997 N. willistoni Thompson, 1986
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