Anasimyia lineata is a Palaearctic species of hoverfly.

[1][2][3] External images The face protrudes forwards as a long snout which tapers to a point.

Keys and accounts Wetlands including bog, fen and marsh, pond-side and riverine fen and alluvial wetlands, such as oxbow lakes.

Flowers visited include Alisma plantago-aquatica, Caltha, Cardamine pratense, Cicuta viros, Lythrum salicaria, Menyanthes trifoliata, Nymphaea alba, Potentilla anserina, Ranunculus, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Sorbus aucuparia, Crataegus and Anthriscus sylvestris.

[8][9] The larva is aquatic and microphagous in rotting plant debris.