Vanoyia tenuicornis

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Vanoyia tenuicornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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


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. ^ a b c 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. 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" (PDF). Ann. Mus. Natl. Hung. 18: 153–176. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  6. ^ Woodley, N.E. (2001). "A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Myia. 11: 1–462. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  7. ISBN 9781899935079
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  8. ISBN 9789051070682
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  9. ^ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909)BHL Full text with illustrations
  10. Faune de France
    Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.
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