Rhaphium pectinatum

Rhaphium pectinatum is a species of long-legged fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in Europe.

Rhaphium pectinatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Genus:	Rhaphium
Species:	R. pectinatum
Binomial name
Rhaphium pectinatum (Loew, 1859)
Synonyms
Porphyrops pectinata Loew, 1859

Distribution

R. pectinatum has been recorded from Austria, England, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia and Sweden.

On 25 June 2015, a single male specimen was caught by Robert J. Wolton at the Devon Wildlife Trust's Old Sludge Beds reserve, on the outskirts of Exeter in Devon, England. The species was previously presumed to be extinct in Britain, as it had not been recorded in the country since 1868, when George Henry Verrall caught a male and female at Richmond in south-west London.^[1]