Chlorops pumilionis

Chlorops pumilionis is a species of pest fly from the family Chloropidae. It is also known as the chloropid gout fly or barley gout fly. It is an oligophagous pest of cereal crops.^[1]

Chlorops pumilionis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chloropidae
Genus:	Chlorops
Species:	C. pumilionis
Binomial name
Chlorops pumilionis (Bjerkander, 1778)
Synonyms
Chlorops lineatus Fabricius, 1781 Chlorops taeniopus Meigen, 1830 Musca lineata Fabricius, 1781 Musca pumilionis Bjerkander, 1778

Description

The thorax is straw yellow, with three longitudinal nodal stripes. The head has black ocular triangle. The third antennal segment and two last segments of tarsus are black.^[1]

Distribution

The fly is widespread in South, North, Central Europe, North America, Africa, and Japan.^[1]

Ecology

Chlorops pumilionis on grass in a meadow

The gout fly damages 18 species of cultivated and wild cereal plants, wheat, barley, rye, oats, timothy grass and couch grass.^[1]