| Sepedon sphegea | |
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| Sepedon sphegea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Sciomyzidae |
| Genus: | Sepedon |
| Species: | S. sphegea
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| Binomial name | |
| Sepedon sphegea (Fabricius, 1775)
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Sepedon sphegea is a Palearctic[1] species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.[2][3][4] The larva feeds on aquatic snails and as an opportunist on other invertebrates.[5][6] The habitat of this species includes among many others, pond margins and damp meadows. It has a particular fondness for Iris pseudacorus which grow at the edges of the pond. Adults can be found all year long but the main flight period is from March to October.
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Sepedon sphegea feeding on a larva of a dragonfly
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Rozkošný, R. (1984). The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 14. E.J. Brill/Scandinavian Science Press. pp. 224 pp. ISBN 90-04-07592-5.
- ^ Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
- ^ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6 ISBN 81-205-0081-4
- ^ Lloyd Vernon Knutson and Jean-Claude Vala, 2011 Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521867856
- ^ Neff S. E. & Berg C. O. 1966. Biology and immature stages of malacophagous diptera of the genus Sepedon (Sciomyzidae). Virginia Agricultural Experiment Stations Bulletin, 566: 1-113.