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Helophilus trivittatus · žiedmusė

  • large tiger hoverfly
  • Große Sumpfschwebfliege
  • gniłun okazały

These hoverflies inhabit wetland, river margins, seasonally flooded grassland and salt-marsh. They are anthropophilic in southern Europe, where it frequents irrigation ditches in farmland. The aquatic rat-tailed larva is a detritivore associated with decaying rhizomes of Typha latifolia and with beds of Glyceria maxima.