L: 3.5-6.0mmbiology: Adults fly May-October.The larval food are cereals (agricultural pests, damaging winter cereals like wheat, barley and rye) and leguminous. They are oligophagous stem borer, feeding on the stems of plants. Phylum: Arthropoda LATREILLE, 1829 (arthropods, Gliederfer)Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten)Subclass: Pterygota LANG, 1888 (Fluginsekten)Infraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923Order: Diptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (true flies, mosquitoes & gnats, Zweiflgler)Suborder: Brachycera SCHINER, 1862 (true flies, Echte Fliegen)Infraorder: Muscomorpha [Syn.: Cyclorrhapha BRAUER, 1863]Superfamily: Opomyzoidea NEWMAN, 1834Family: Opomyzidae FALLN, 1820 (Grasfliegen oder Saftfliegen)Genus:
Opomyza FALLN, 1820
Opomyza florum FABRICIUS, 1794 (Yellow Cereal Fly, Gelbe Getreidefliege)[det. Roger Thomason, 2016, based on this photo]Some info (German):
www.naturspaziergang.de/Zweifluegler/Opomyza_florum.htmSE-Germany, Bavaria: vic. Regensburg: Unterlichtenwald, 24.07.2011IMG_3956