Oxycera pardalina
| Oxycera pardalina | |
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| Oxycera pardalina in the 1790 edition of Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 13) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Stratiomyidae |
| Genus: | Oxycera |
| Species: | O. pardalina
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxycera pardalina Meigen, 1822
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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 third segment is 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.
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.
- ^ Seguy. E. Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.
- ^ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrations
- ^ 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.
- ^ William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London,
1902-1927. 7 vols
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