Biology:Oxycera rara

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Short description: Species of fly

Oxycera rara
Oxycera rara, Newborough Warren, North Wales, July 2015 3 (19442800306).jpg
specimen from North Wales
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Stratiomyidae
Subfamily: Stratiomyinae
Tribe: Oxycerini
Genus: Oxycera
Species:
O. rara
Binomial name
Oxycera rara
(Scopoli, 1763)[1]
Synonyms
  • Musca hypoleon Donovan, 1795
  • Musca rara Scopoli, 1763[1]
  • Musca tardigradus Harris, 1776
  • Oxycera hypoleon (Donovan, 1795)
  • Oxycera maculata (Geoffroy, 1785)
  • Oxycera pulchella Meigen, 1822[2]
  • Oxycera tardigradus (Harris, 1776)
  • Stratiomys maculata Geoffroy, 1785
  • Hermione pulchella var. similis Vaillant, 1950

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. ↑ 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. 
  2. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. 
  5. ↑ Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256pp. ISBN 9789051070682. 
  6. ↑ 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. 
  7. ↑ ROZKOŠNÝ, RUDOLF (1983). A Biosystematic study of the European Stratiomyidae (Diptera). Vol. 2.. Springer Dordrecht. ISBN 9789061931355. https://link.springer.com/book/9789061931355. 

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