Lonchaea chorea

Lonchaea chorea is a species of fly in the family Lonchaeidae. It is found in the Palearctic.^[1][2][3] The larva develops in cow dung.^[4]

Lonchaea chorea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Lonchaeidae
Genus:	Lonchaea
Species:	L. chorea
Binomial name
Lonchaea chorea (Fabricius, 1781)
Synonyms
Musca chorea (Fabricius, 1781) Lonchaea vaginalis Fallén, 1820 Lonchaea flavidipennis Zetterstedt, 1847

Description

For terms see Morphology of Diptera. Long 3–5 mm. Male interocular space eye twice as wide as the antenna, more narrow in front. Thorax and abdomen shiny black with blue, green or purple reflections. Wings more or less yellow at the base. Squamae with long marginal cilia. Black halteres. Short subdiscoid abdomen.

Female interocular space slightly less wide than the eye. Lunula with white pruinosity. Antenna dark brown and extended to the epistome.

Biology

March–December, on leaves, bushes, shrubs, etc. Larva under old bark, in cow dung, causing decay in beets, under the bark of pine with Tomicus piniperda under Quercus bark.

Distribution

partial Throughout Europe, from Ireland Sweden to Spain and Italy. Macedonia. Also Ecuador.

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