Oxycera nigricornis

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Stratiomyidae
Subfamily:	Stratiomyinae
Tribe:	Oxycerini
Genus:	Oxycera
Species:	O. nigricornis
Binomial name
	Oxycera nigricornis; Olivier, 1811
Synonyms
	Oxycera formosa Meigen, 1822;

Oxycera nigricornis, the delicate soldier, is a European species of soldier fly.[1]

Description

Vein RH5 is simple. The thorax is very bare and shining in both sexes; in the females, longitudinal stripes are joined anteriorly to large patches on the nototpleuron.[2][3][4] [5]

Biology

The habitat is wetlands, marshes. Adults are found June to August.

Distribution

Taiga and forest zones of the European part of the USSR and Siberia, northern Kazakhstan, Primor'e Territory. North and Central belts of Western Europe, northern Mongolia.

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.
Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.
George Henry Verrall Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain - British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrations
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.
William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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

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

[4] 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.

[5] William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.