Soldier Fly - Family Stratiomyidae

Soldier Fly
Order Diptera -- gnats, mosca, mosquito, mosquitoes, true flies / Suborder Brachycera -- circular-seamed flies, mouches muscoïdes, muscoid flies, short-horned flies
Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha / Family Stratiomyidae Latreille, 1802 -- soldier flies, soldier flies, stratiome / Subfamily Stratiomyinae Latreille, 1802
Tribe Stratiomyini Latrielle, 1802 / Genus Stratiomys Geoffroy, 1762 / Species Stratiomys barbata (Loew, 1866)
Live adult soldier fly photographed at Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve, Winfield IL USA.


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

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