Beris fuscipes
# Beris fuscipes

Beris fuscipes, the short-horned black legionnaire, is a European species of soldier fly.

## Description

Head dark. Antennae short the antennal flagellum thickened basally, as wide as pedicel and narrowed sharply toward apex, almost trapezoidal. Thorax and scutellum bright shining green, not in the least blackish, Abdomen black, legs extensively dark dull orange or dusky. Scutellum with usually six (sometimes eight) spines. Epandrium with developed surstyli. Very similar to Beris geniculata.

## Biology

Beris fuscipes occurs in damp woodland, marshes and fens from May-September.

## Distribution

Most of Europe including European Russia. North America.

