Oxycera pardalina

Oxycera pardalina

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Oxycera pardalina in the 1790 edition of Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 13)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Stratiomyidae
Subfamily: Stratiomyinae
Tribe: Oxycerini
Genus: Oxycera
Species: O. pardalina
Binomial name
Oxycera pardalina
Meigen, 1822

Oxycera pardalina, the hill soldier, is a European species of soldier fly. [1]

Description

Body length 4.0 to 5.0 mm.Black. Mesonotum only slightly glossy. Basal segments of antennae yellow, the 3rd segment dark brown. Scutellum. with two black spots near base.Abdomen:second, third and fourth tergites with rounded side spots; Fourth tergite band complete or closely separated in the middle, fifth with a large rounded median spot Female: yellow stripe on face along anterior margin of eyes continued onto frons.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Biology

The habitat is hilly country, small calcareous streams in scrub or at a woodland edge. The flight period is from early June to early August,

Distribution

Northern Central and Southern Europe.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Stubbs, A. & Drake, M. (2001). British Soldierflies and Their Allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 512 pp. ISBN 1-899935-04-5.
  2. ↑ Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.
  3. ↑ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrations
  4. ↑ E. P. Narchuk in Bei-Bienko, G. Ya, 1988 Keys to the insects of the European Part of the USSR Volume 5 (Diptera) Part 2 English edition. Keys to Palaearctic species but now needs revision.
  5. ↑ William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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