Archive image from page 79 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 70 Orthorrhapha brachycera. XXXIII. 243) describes the larva of the somewhat nearly related Chorisops tibialis Meig. This larva resembles a Sargus larva what may probably also be the case with the Beris larva. The Chorisops larva was found in earth with much decaying vegetable matter. The species of Beris are not very lively, they are especially found in low herbage and in bushes often near water. The genus comprises 5 palaearc
Archive image from page 79 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 70 Orthorrhapha brachycera. XXXIII. 243) describes the larva of the somewhat nearly related Chorisops tibialis Meig. This larva resembles a Sargus larva what may probably also be the case with the Beris larva. The Chorisops larva was found in earth with much decaying vegetable matter. The species of Beris are not very lively, they are especially found in low herbage and in bushes often near water. The genus comprises 5 palaearctic species of which 4 have hitherto been found in Denmark. Table of Species. 1. Abdomen red above 2. — Abdomen dull black or shining, dark brown above 3. 2. Abdomen red above, without blackish transverse lines: wings in the male brownish, in the female clearer , . . . . 1. vallata. — Abdomen red above with impressed, blackish, transverse lines: wings in both sexes brown 2. clavipes. 3. Abdomen in the male dull black, in the female daik brown, shining; front in the female broad, occupying the third part of the breadth of the head 3. chalyheata. — Abdomen in both sexes dark brown, shining; front in the female narrow, only occupying the fifth part of the breadth of the head 4, Morrisii. 1. B. vallata Forst, 1771, Musca, Forst. Nov. spec. Ins. I, 90. — 1842. Zett. Dipt. Scand. I. 133, 4. — 184G. Loew, Stett. Ent. Zeit. VII, 222, 1. — 1862. Schin. F. A. 1, 24. — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 38. Male. Eyes hairy, in the upper two thirds the facets larger than below. Antennae brownish black, rather long, longer than the head. Thorax black with blackish brown pubescence. Abdomen red, brown at the base, with blackish brown pubescence that is long at the margin; the seventh segment generally brown. Venter yellowish red. Win' of B. i-allata. Legs yellow; tibiae at the apical halves or two thirds, and the tarsi dark brown; the hind metatarsi much thickened. Legs with fi
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