Biology:Vanoyia tenuicornis

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Vanoyia tenuicornis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
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)[1]
Synonyms
  • Oxycera nigra Macquart, 1834[1]
  • Oxycera tenuicornis Macquart, 1834[1]
  • Oxycera longicornis Dale, 1842[2]
  • Oxycera longicornis Walker, 1851[3]
  • Vanoyia scutellata Villeneuve, 1908[4]
  • Vanoyea separata Kertész, 1921[5]


Vanoyia tenuicornis, the long-horned soldier, is a European species of soldier fly. [6][7][8]

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.[9][10]

Distribution

Belgium, Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, North Africa

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Macquart, P. J. M. (1834). Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome premiere. Paris: Roret. pp. 578 + 8 pp., 12 pls. 
  2. ↑ Dale, J. C. (1842). "Descriptions, &c. of a few rare or undescribed species of British Diptera, prin- cipally from the collection of J. C. Dale, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c.". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 (53): 430-433. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2338444#page/462/mode/1up. Retrieved 24 March 2023. 
  3. ↑ Walker, F. (1851). Diptera. Part II, pp. 77-156, pls. 3-4. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. , .. London: Van Voorst. pp. 1–474. 
  4. ↑ Villeneuve, J. (1908). "Travaux dipterologiques". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 27: 281-288. 
  5. ↑ Kertész, K. (1921). "Vorarbeiten zur einer Monographie der Notacanthen. XXXIX--XLIV.". Ann. Mus. Natl. Hung. 18: 153-176. http://publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/annHNHM/Annals_HNHM_1920-21_Vol_18_153.pdf. Retrieved 27 December 2022. 
  6. ↑ Woodley, N.E. (2001). "A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera)". Myia 11: 1–462. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Norman-Woodley/publication/303225468_A_World_Catalog_of_the_Stratiomyidae_Insecta_Diptera/links/5eac5d63299bf18b958e19bf/A-World-Catalog-of-the-Stratiomyidae-Insecta-Diptera.pdf. Retrieved 7 December 2022. 
  7. ↑ 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. 
  8. ↑ Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256 pp. ISBN 9789051070682. 
  9. ↑ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909)BHL Full text with illustrations
  10. ↑ Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.

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