Stratiomys singularia

{{Short description|Species of fly}} {{Speciesbox | image = Stratiomys fg01.jpg | genus = Stratiomys | species = singularia | display_parents = 3 | authority = (Harris, 1776) | synonyms = *''Musca singularior'' Harris, 1776 *''Stratiomys furcata'' Fabricius, 1794<ref name="Fabricius1794">{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=J.C. |title=Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4 |date=1794 |publisher=C. G. Proft |location=Hafniae [=Copenhagen] |pages=[6] + 472 + [5] pp}}</ref> *''Stratiomys riparia'' Meigen, 1822<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> }}

'''''Stratiomys singularia''''', the '''flecked general''', is a Palearcticspecies 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== Body length 13,5–17 mm. Eyes of the male hairy, and those of the female without any yellow postocular collar. Tibiae and venter mainly black, the latter with pale bands. Abdomen dorsally with three pairs of small, yellow spots and the apex yellow or orange.<ref>Seguy. E. ''Faune de France'' Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères.308 p., 685 fig.</ref><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><ref>William Lundbeck ''Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark''. Copenhagen & London, 1902-1927. 7 vols {{PD-notice}}</ref>

==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.

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Stratiomyidae Category:Flies of Europe Category:Insects described in 1776 Category:Taxa named by Moses Harris