Oxycera morrisii

Oxycera morrisii
Oxycera morrisii depicted in British Entomology
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Stratiomyidae
Subfamily: Stratiomyinae
Tribe: Oxycerini
Genus: Oxycera
Species:
O. morrisii
Binomial name
Oxycera morrisii
Curtis, 1833[1]
Synonyms
  • Oxycera ranzonii Schiner, 1857[2]
  • Hermione morrisi Lindner, 1938[3]
  • Hermione ronzonii Vaillant, 1950[4]
  • Oxycera ronzonii Vaillant, 1950[4]

Oxycera morrisii, the white-barred soldier, is a European species of soldier fly. [5][6][7]

Description

Body length L.4-4,5 mm. Cubital vein forked. Scutellum with only the tip yellow. Scutellum has two spines. Abdomen with five transverse whitish yellow isolated spots. A very distinct species. Female. Black. Frons shining, orbits white interrupted on the upper part. Antennae black. One line and a white spot at the wing base. Scutellum white-yellow at the tip. Tarsi yellow. Halteres yellow brown at the base. Abdomen shining black, with five isolated whitish yellow transverse spots, last tergite yellow; sternites brown. - Male. Eyes bare. Sternites II-III-IV yellow medially.

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Biology

The habitat is wetlands, marshes. Adults are found in July

Distribution

Northern Europe, Central Europe

References

  1. ^ Curtis, J. (1833). British entomology. Vol. 10. London: Privately published. pp. 438–441.
  2. ^ Schiner, I.R. (1857). "Dipterologische Fragmente V". Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien. 7: 3–20.
  3. ^ Lindner, E. (1938). "18. Stratiomyidae. In: Lindner, E. (ed.)". Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region. 4 (Lfg.116) (1): 177–218.
  4. ^ a b Vaillant, F. (1950). "Contribution a l'etudes des Stratiomyidae du genre Hermione". Revue fr. Ent. 17: 245–256.
  5. ^ Stubbs, Alan E; Drake, Martin (2014). British Soldierflies and their allies (an illustrated guide to their identification and ecology) (2 ed.). Reading: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 528 pp, 20 plates. ISBN 9781899935079.
  6. ^ Woodley, N.E. (2001). "A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera)". Myia. 11: 1–462. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  7. ^ Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256pp. ISBN 9789051070682.
  8. ^ Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.
  9. ^ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909)BHL Full text with illustrations
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.