Oxycera pygmaea
Oxycera pygmaea, the pygmy soldier, is a European species of soldier fly.

Description
The body length is .  Mesonotum punctate, with decumbent grey hairs. Both male and female black with yellow humeri, yellow notopleural margin, and small yellow spots on postalar calli.

Biology
The habitat is wetland, calcareous seepages. The flight period is from June to July.

Distribution
Northern Europe Central Europe up to southern Sweden Central

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Stratiomyidae
Diptera of Europe
Insects described in 1817
Taxa named by Carl Fredrik Fallén