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
	Oxycera longicornis Dale, 1842; Oxycera tenuicornis Macquart, 1834; Vanoyia longicornis (Dale, 1842); Vanoyia terminata (Walker, 1851);

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

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 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] George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909)BHL Full text with illustrations

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

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