Soldier Fly - Stratiomys barbata
Order Diptera -- gnats, mosca, mosquito, mosquitoes, true flies / Suborder Brachycera -- circular-seamed flies, mouches muscoïdes, muscoid flies, short-horned flies / Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha / Family Stratiomyidae -- soldier flies,  stratiome/ Subfamily Stratiomyinae / Tribe Stratiomyini
Live adult soldier fly photographed at Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve, Winfield Illinois

Soldier Fly - Stratiomys barbata
Soldier Fly
The larvae of most soldier flies are primarily aquatic. There are approximately 254 species of soldier flies in North America.

 

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