Biology:Oxycera rara
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Short description: Species of fly
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specimen from North Wales | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Stratiomyidae |
Subfamily: | Stratiomyinae |
Tribe: | Oxycerini |
Genus: | Oxycera |
Species: | O. rara
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Oxycera rara, the four-barred major, is a European species of soldier fly.[3][4][5]
Description
Adult body length 7 mm. Wing length 6 mm. In both male and female, the scutellum has two spines. The most diagnostic character for this species is that tergite 2 is entirely black with no markings.[3]
Distribution
In the European continent: southern England, Wales, Italy, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. In the African continent: Tunisia and Algeria.[6][7][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Scopoli, I.A. (1763). Entomologia carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana. Vindobonae [= Vienna]: Trattner. pp. [30] + 420 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209872#page/5/mode/1up. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ↑ Meigen, J. W. (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49298#page/7/mode/1up. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Woodley, N.E. (2001). "A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera)". Myia 11: 1–462. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303225468. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256pp. ISBN 9789051070682.
- ↑ MASON, FRANCO; ROZKOŠNÝ, RUDOLF; HAUSER, MARTIN (22 December 2009). "A review of the soldier flies (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) of Sardinia". Zootaxa 2318 (1): 507–530. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2318.1.20. ISSN 1175-5326.
- ↑ ROZKOŠNÝ, RUDOLF (1983). A Biosystematic study of the European Stratiomyidae (Diptera). Vol. 2.. Springer Dordrecht. ISBN 9789061931355. https://link.springer.com/book/9789061931355.
Wikidata ☰ Q1167973 entry
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