Oxycera leonina (Panzer, 1798) is a animal in the Stratiomyidae family, order Diptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Oxycera leonina (Panzer, 1798) (Oxycera leonina (Panzer, 1798))
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Oxycera leonina (Panzer, 1798)

Oxycera leonina (Panzer, 1798)

Oxycera leonina is a small fly species with specific physical traits found across much of Europe and more recently in Turkey.

Family
Genus
Oxycera
Order
Diptera
Class
Insecta

About Oxycera leonina (Panzer, 1798)

Scientific name: Oxycera leonina (Panzer, 1798). Adults of this species have a body length ranging from 5.5 to 8 mm, and a wing length ranging from 5.5 to 6 mm. Both males and females have two spines on their scutellum. The abdomen is almost entirely black, with only small areas of yellow at its base and tip. This species is distributed across Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia. More recently, it has also been recorded in Turkey.

Photo: (c) Linné's Nightmare, all rights reserved, uploaded by Linné's Nightmare

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Diptera Stratiomyidae Oxycera

More from Stratiomyidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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