{{Short description|Species of fly}} {{Speciesbox | image =EuropäischenZweiflügeligen1790CLXVIII.jpg | image_caption = ''Beris fuscipes'' in the 1790 edition of ''Europäischen Zweiflügeligen'' (figure 3) | genus = Beris | species = fuscipes | authority = Meigen, 1820<ref name="Meigen1820">{{cite book |last1=Meigen |first1=J.W. |title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten |date=1820 |publisher=Zweiter Theil. Forstmann |location=Aachen |pages=xxxvi + 363 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45915#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=8 July 2022}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | synonyms = *''Beris nigra'' <small>Meigen, 1822</small><ref name="Meigen1822">{{cite book |last1=Meigen |first1=J. W. |title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten |date=1822 |publisher=Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann |location=Hamm |pages=x, 416, pls. 22–32 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49298#page/7/mode/1up |accessdate=14 April 2019}}</ref> }}
'''''Beris fuscipes''''', the '''short-horned black legionnaire''', is a European species of soldier fly.<ref name="StubbsDrake2014">{{cite book |last1=Stubbs |first1=Alan E |last2=Drake |first2=Martin |title=British Soldierflies and their allies (an illustrated guide to their identification and ecology) |date=2014 |publisher=British Entomological and Natural History Society |location=Reading |isbn=9781899935079 |pages=528 pp, 20 plates |edition=2}}</ref><ref name="Woodley2001">{{cite journal |last1=Woodley |first1=N.E. |title=A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera) |journal=Myia |date=2001 |volume=11 |pages=1-462| url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Norman-Woodley/publication/303225468_A_World_Catalog_of_the_Stratiomyidae_Insecta_Diptera/links/5eac5d63299bf18b958e19bf/A-World-Catalog-of-the-Stratiomyidae-Insecta-Diptera.pdf| access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="ZeegersSchulten2022">{{cite book |last1=Zeegers |first1=T. |last2=Schulten |first2=A. |title=Families of Flies with Three Pulvilli: Field Guide Northwest Europe |date=2022 |publisher=Jeugdbondsuitgeverij |location=Graveland |isbn=9789051070682 |pages=256pp}}</ref>
==Description== Head dark. Antennae short the antennal flagellum thickened basally, as wide as pedicel and narrowed sharply toward apex, almost trapezoidal. Thorax and scutellum bright shining green, not in the least blackish, Abdomen black, legs extensively dark dull orange or dusky. Scutellum with usually six (sometimes eight) spines. Epandrium with developed surstyli.<ref>George Henry Verrall''Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain''- ''British flies'' (1909)[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36929#page/7/mode/2up BHL] Full text with illustrations </ref><ref>E. 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.</ref> Very similar to ''Beris geniculata''.
==Biology== ''Beris fuscipes'' occurs in damp woodland, marshes and fens from May-September.
==Distribution== Most of Europe including European Russia. North America.
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Stratiomyidae Category:Flies of Europe Category:Flies of North America Category:Insects described in 1820 Category:Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen