Beris fuscipes
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| Beris fuscipes | |
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| File:EuropäischenZweiflügeligen1790CLXVIII.jpg | |
| Beris fuscipes in the 1790 edition of Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 3) | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Stratiomyidae |
| Subfamily: | Beridinae |
| Genus: | Beris |
| Species: | B. fuscipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Beris fuscipes | |
| Synonyms | |
Beris fuscipes, the short-horned black legionnaire, is a European species of soldier fly.[3][4][5]
Description
[edit | edit source]Head dark. Antennae short the antennal flagellum thickened basally, as wide as pedicel and narrowed sharply toward apex, almost trapezoidal. Thorax and scutellum bright shining green, not in the least blackish, Abdomen black, legs extensively dark dull orange or dusky. Scutellum with usually six (sometimes eight) spines. Epandrium with developed surstyli.[6] [7] Very similar to Beris geniculata.
Biology
[edit | edit source]Beris fuscipes occurs in damp woodland, marshes and fens from May-September.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]Most of Europe including European Russia. North America.
References
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- ^ George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae 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.
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