Anasimyia contracta
Wing length 5 to 7.5 mm. This species has a slightly 'wasp waisted' abdomen. Segment T2 is narrower than it is long and it has greyish 'hockey stick' shaped markings.
A. transfuga has similar markings but with segment T2 parallel sided and wider then long.
Usually seen on emergent vegetation at the margins of still water.
April to September peaking in June and July.
Larvae have been found living between the leaf sheaths of rotting plants.
Widely distributed but local in Britain.
Thought to be infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Leicester.
18 June 2016
David Nicholls
Leicester, Bennion Pools NA
06 June 2023
David Gould
Croft Pasture, Leics
20 June 2014
Paul Ruddoch
Melton Country Park
12 June 2015
sue
Oadby Grange lake
02 June 2020
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
30 May 2019
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Species profile
- Species group:
- insect - true fly (Diptera)
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Syrphidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 20
- First record:
- 20/06/2014 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 17/06/2025 (Hunt, Graham)
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Paul Ruddoch
Melton Country Park
30 June 2014
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
30 May 2019
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Leicester.
18 June 2016
Paul Ruddoch
Melton Country Park
21 June 2015
David Nicholls
Rutland Water
11 June 2016
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
15 June 2020
Ian Harding
Willesley Wood
27 May 2022
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