Oxycera pygmaea

Oxycera pygmaea
Oxycera pygmaea North Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Stratiomyidae
Subfamily: Stratiomyinae
Tribe: Oxycerini
Genus: Oxycera
Species: O. pygmaea
Binomial name
Oxycera pygmaea
(Fallén, 1817)
Synonyms

Oxycera pygmaea, the pygmy soldier, is a European species of soldier fly. [1]

Description

Body length 3.0 to 4.0 mm. Mesonotum punctate, with decumbent grey hairs.Both male and female black with yellow humeri, yellow notopleural margin, and small yellow spots on postalar calli.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Biology

The habitat is wetland, calcareous seepages.The flight period is from June to July.

Distribution

Northern Europe Central Europe up to southern Sweden Central

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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