Vanoyia tenuicornis
Vanoyia tenuicornis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Stratiomyidae |
Subfamily: | Stratiomyinae |
Tribe: | Oxycerini |
Genus: | Vanoyia |
Species: | V. tenuicornis |
Binomial name | |
Vanoyia tenuicornis (Macquart, 1834) | |
Synonyms | |
Vanoyia tenuicornis, the long-horned soldier, is a European species of soldier fly. [1]
Description
Vanoyia tenuicornis is strongly sexually dimorphic. The male has a black thorax and black abdomen , and no yellow pattern except on the notopleural suture and postalar callus. Legs mostly black. The female has an extensively yellow mesopleuron , and a yellow scutellum. Legs of the female are mainly orange. A remarkable species with long antenna; which apparently have no terminal style.[2][3]
Distribution
Belgium, Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, North Africa
See also
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909)BHL Full text with illustrations
- ↑ Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.
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