Coenosia tigrina
A small fly (6 or 7 mm long) buff-grey with dark spots. Distinguished from other Coenosia by the combination of a pair of bristles very close to each other on the middle of the hind tibia and the mid and hind femora black with red tips.
Very similar to a number of Helina species, separated by the missing pre-alar bristle.
- 3 sternopleural bristles in a triangle
- missing pre-alar
- acrostichals: 0+0, dorsocentrals: 1+3
- plumose arista, black palps
- cross-veins not infuscated
Occupies a very broad range of habitats especially waste places and is sometimes found in greenhouses.
May to September
Predatory on small insects etc.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
David Nicholls
Ratby
09 September 2021
David Gould
Braunstone
05 May 2003
David Nicholls
Ratby
09 September 2021
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
26 July 2013
David Nicholls
Markfield, path by A50
22 October 2020
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Flies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Muscidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 05/05/2003 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 09/09/2021 (Nicholls, David)
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Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
26 July 2013
David Nicholls
Markfield, path by A50
22 October 2020
