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Genus Oxycera

Fly - Oxycera variegata - male Soldier fly? - Oxycera variegata - male Yellow-green-streaked big-eyed small fly - Oxycera variegata Yellow and Black Fly - Oxycera variegata - female which Oxycera? - Oxycera albovittata - female which Oxycera? - Oxycera albovittata - female Oxycera albovittata Oxycera, found on snowpack - Oxycera
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha
Family Stratiomyidae (Soldier flies)
Subfamily Stratiomyinae
Tribe Oxycerini
Genus Oxycera
Explanation of Names
Oxycera Meigen 1803
Numbers
7 spp. in our area, >80 spp. total(1)
Works Cited
1.A world catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Woodley N.E. 2001. North American Dipterists' Society. Washington, DC. 475 pp.