Vanoyia tenuicornis

Vanoyia tenuicornis
Scientific 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
Oxycera nigra Macquart, 1834 [1] Oxycera tenuicornis Macquart, 1834 [1] Oxycera longicornis Dale, 1842 [2] Oxycera longicornis Walker, 1851 [3] Vanoyia scutellata Villeneuve, 1908 [4] Vanoyea separata Kertész, 1921 [5]

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. 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. 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.
8. Zeegers, T.; Schulten, A. (2022). Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe. Graveland: Jeugdbondsuitgeverij. pp. 256 pp. ISBN   9789051070682.
9. George Henry Verrall Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909)BHL Full text with illustrations
10. Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.