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Classification Order: Diptera – true flies Family: Stratiomyidae
Wing Length 5 - 6 mm
Phenology May - September
Identification
The Beris genus is typified by having six spines along the base of the scutellum.
B. vallata has a mainly orange abdomen. The male's wings are dark but the female's are fairly clear.
B. vallata can be distinguished from the similar B. clavipes by its hind leg tibia being half black and half orange (it is all orange on B. clavipes).Life CycleLarvae have been reared from dung, compost, rotting vegetationor other decaying matter
Habitat Found on vegetation in moist habitats such as marshes and wet woodland
By Silversyrpher (Flickr: Beris vallata (Common Orange Legionnaire)) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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