Hirtodrosophila confusa is a widespread, but rarely common Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an species of fruit fly from the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Drosophilidae

Drosophilidae

Drosophilidae is a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes fruit flies. Another family of flies called Tephritidae also includes fruit flies. The best known species of Drosophilidae is Drosophila melanogaster, within the genus Drosophila, and this species Is used extensively for...

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Description

Relatively large species (for Drosophilidae), wing length about 3.5mm, generally yellowish body with some variable brown triangular marking on the dorsal surface of the abdomen, wings yellowish.

Distribution

Widespread in most of the Palaearctic though rare in northern parts, absent from Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

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Biology

It is mostly associated with woodland habitat types. Specimens have been reared from fungi, which is suspected to the preferred larval food. Populations peek about July.