Species Account for Phaonia atriceps
Phaonia atriceps (Loew, 1858)
Diptera: other groups: Muscidae
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Taxonomic group: flies (other) (Diptera: other groups) - County data
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Status: Notable
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Recorded from 5 out of 57x10km.sq. records in county
Species text
There are few records scattered through Southern Britain, but tends to be abundant where it occurs. It has been bred from a pupae found between the leaf-sheathes of Typha but also found in stands of Glyceria and Phragmites. Larvae probably predatory on other insects in reed stems (Recorder Species Account). References
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