Stratiomys singularia, the flecked general, is a Palearcticspecies of soldier fly.
Description Body length 13,5–17 mm. Eyes of the male hairy, and those of the female bare without any yellow postocular collar.Face completely black with white hair. Frons with a yellow band interrupted above the antennae Occiput yellow at the top. (female), entirely black (male).Femora (ventral face) black (male), base orange. Tibiae and venter mainly black, the latter with pale bands.Tarsi red. Halteres yellow. Abdomen dorsally with three pairs of small, yellow spots and the apex yellow or orange. Larvae - Body: brown with long, darker longitudinal spots. Last segment very elongated, about twice as long as the penultimate, sternites II and III with a small, barely noticeable anterior spiny protuberance. Length 60mm.Seguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.George Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrationsE. 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.William Lundbeck Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols Seguy, E. 1927 Faune de France 13: Diptères (Brachycères) (Stratiomyiidæ, Erianidæ, Cænomyiidæ, Rhagionidæ, Tabanidæ, Codidæ, Nemestrinidæ, Mydaidæ, Romoyiidæ, Therevidæ, Omphralidæ) Lechevalier editions (Paris: Éditions Faune de France)
Biology Found in wetland habitats, humid places, brackish water from June to August. The adults feed on the nectar and pollen of Umbelliferae. The larvae are detritus feeding in shallow, sometimes temporary pools.
Distribution Western Europe, European Russia, Caucasus, Russian Far East, Siberia, Central Asia.
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