Rhingia campestris

Taxobox | name = "Rhingia campestris"

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image_caption = "Rhingia campestris" female
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Aschiza
superfamilia = Syrphoidea
familia = Syrphidae
subfamilia = Milesiinae
tribus = Cheilosiini
genus = "Rhingia"
species = "R. campestris"
binomial = "Rhingia campestris"
binomial_authority = Meigen, 1822
synonyms = *"Musca macrocephala" Harris, 1780
*"Musca nasata" Harris, 1780
*"Musca nosata" Harris, 1780
*"Rhingia macrocephala" (Harris, 1780)
*"Rhingia nasata" (Harris, 1780)
*"Rhingia nosata" (Harris, 1780) [cite book|author=Stubbs, Alan E. and Falk, Steven J.|year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society]

"Rhingia campestris" is a species of hoverfly, some 7 to 11mm in length, with a wing span from 12 to 18mm. It is not un-common in many parst of Europe from March until November It has a broad orange abdomen with a black line along the sides (the black line is absent along the sides of "Rhingia rostrata"), and has the distinctive long snout of all "Rhingia" species. Larva are associated with cow dung. Adults feed on nectar and pollen.

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