Odontomyia angulata, also called the orange-horned green colonel, is a European species of soldier fly.Diagnostic characters are:-Distinctly smaller species, body not more than 10 mm. long. Discal cell not conspicuously small; vein R2+3 present. Discal cell emits 3 veins (M3 present) Frons narrower than in Odontomyia hydroleon , rather swollen, predominantly yellow-brown with reddish-brown pattern. In both sexes, face less prominent between eyes, and in dorsal view less snout-like than in hydroleon. Lateral spots of abdomen filling length of each segment, so that black areas do not reach lateral margins.Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera Brachycera: Tabanoidea and Asiloidea (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/4) Royal Entomological Society, London.
Distribution Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia.
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