Beris vallata

Beris vallata, the orange legionnaire or common orange legionnaire, is a European species of soldier fly.[1]

Beris vallata
Beris vallata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Stratiomyidae
Subfamily:
Beridinae
Genus:
Beris
Species:
B. vallata
Binomial name
Beris vallata
(Forster, 1771)
Synonyms

Description

Body length 5.0 to 6.0 mm. Abdomen entirely matt yellow, without black bands. All tibiae black in apical half. Wings of female yellowish with brown pterostigma; wings of male blackish. Pubescence of abdomen black in male, yellow in female.[2][3][4]

Biology

The flight period is may to September. A hedgerow species. One larvae microhabitat is Bryophyta. The larva feeds on dead leaves and puparia have been found among fallen decomposing leaves. Adults feed on pollen and nectar including that of Tanacetum vulgare.

Distribution

North Europe, Central Europe, Southwest Europe, north up to Sweden.European Russia.

See also

References
  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 VerrallStratiomyidae 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.
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