Liancalus virens
Length 7 or 8 mm. This colourful species is the largest of the dolichopodid or long legged flies in north western Europe.
It lives amongst the mosses, liverworts and algae growing under bridges and beside waterfalls and fast running water.
All year round.
Scattered records from across most of Britain often with a western or coastal bias.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
12 November 2014
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
12 November 2014
Steve Woodward
Grace Dieu viaduct
28 October 2011
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Flies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Dolichopodidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 28/10/2011 (Woodward, Steve)
- Last record:
- 07/07/2024 (Higgott, Mike)
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David Nicholls
Spinney Hill Park
27 April 2019
Mark Skevington
Croft Pastures
07 March 2015
