Beris clavipes
Beris clavipes, the scarce orange legionnaire, is a European species of soldier fly.
Description
Length 6—6.3 mm.Male. Eyes hairy, facets in about the upper two thirds larger than below. Antennae black, the first joint longer than the
second. Thorax black with blackish pubescence. Abdomen orange with brownish pubescence, which is long at the margin: the
base brown; on the second to sixth segment the transverse, impressed line just in front of the hind margin is more or less
distinctly blackish: the seventh segment is not brown. Venter yellowish red. Legs yellow; the apical half of the anterior
tibiae, the hind tibiae at the tips and all tarsi blackish:the hind metatarsi much thickened. Legs with fine, yellowish
pubescence. Wings considerably brownish and more so than in vallata especially towards the anterior margin, veins
brown: stigma not conspicuous. Halteres brownish.
Female. Eyes sparingly and very short hairy. Frons broad, black. Thorax with brown pubescence. Abdomen not brown at the base: wings nearly as brown as in the male.
[Image:HildenMillMay2017.jpg|thumb|230px|left|Habitat. Ireland]