Oxycera fallenii

Oxycera fallenii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Stratiomyidae
Genus:	Oxycera
Species:	O. fallenii
Binomial name
	Oxycera fallenii; Staeger, 1844

Oxycera fallenii, the Irish major, is a Palearctic species of soldier fly. ^[1] The body length is 7.0 to 9.0.mm. The abdomen has three pairs of yellow spots, in addition to a yellow base and tip. Longitudinal stripes on the mesonotum are not connected with the yellow humeral spot. The legs are entirely yellow. This species is found in South European USSR East to Siberia and Western Europe to Ireland, Central Europe and South Europe.^[2]^[3]

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.
^ 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.
^ Seguy. E. Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.

[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] 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.

[3] Seguy. E. Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.

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