Biology:Oxycera fallenii

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Short description: Species of fly

Oxycera fallenii
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Stratiomyidae
Subfamily: Stratiomyinae
Tribe: Oxycerini
Genus: Oxycera
Species:
O. fallenii
Binomial name
Oxycera fallenii
Staeger, 1844[1]
Synonyms
  • Oxycera falleni Loew, 1845[2]
  • Oxycera octomaculata Yaroshevskii, 1877[3]
  • Oxycera falenii Dušek & Rozkošný, 1974

Oxycera fallenii, the Irish major, is a Palearctic species of soldier fly. [4][5][6] The body length is 7.0 to 9.0.mm. The abdomen has three pairs of yellow spots, in addition to a yellow base and tip. Longitudinal stripes on the mesonotum are not connected with the yellow humeral spot. The legs are entirely yellow. This species is found in South European USSR East to Siberia and Western Europe to Ireland, Central Europe, South Europe and Turkey.[7][8][9]

References

  1. Staeger, R.C. (1844). "Bemerkungen über Musca hypoleon". Stettin entomologische zeitung 5: 403–410. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33828400#page/407/mode/1up. Retrieved 26 February 2023. 
  2. Loew, H. (1845). "Dipterologische Beiträge. [ErsterTheil.] [Zu der] offentlichen Prufung der Schuler der KoniglichenFriedrich-Wilhelms- Gymnasium". Posen: 50 + [2] pp., 1 pl. 
  3. Yaroshevskii, V.A. (1877) (in Russian). [Addition to the list of two-winged insects of Kharkov and its vicinity with their distribution within European Russia]. Kharkov: V Universitetskoi tipografi. pp. 138 pp.. 
  4. 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. 
  5. 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. 
  6. Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256pp. ISBN 9789051070682. 
  7. 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.
  8. Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.
  9. ÜSTÜNER, Turgay; HASBENLİ, Abdullah; ÇAĞLAR, Üzeyir (26 November 2015). "Türkiye'den Oxycera (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) cinsine ait üç yeni kayıt". Türkiye Entomoloji Bülteni 5 (4): 179. doi:10.16969/teb.79961. ISSN 2146-975X. 

Wikidata ☰ Q14274486 entry