Species Detail - Pygmy Soldier (Oxycera pygmaea) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Soldierflies (Stratiomyidae) of Ireland".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Oxycera pygmaea
Pygmy Soldier
NBNSYS0000007815
RecommendedWell-formed
Oxycera affinis Dale, 1833, Oxycera muscaria authors, misident. , Oxycera nigripes Verrall, 1888, Oxycera pardalina misident. Walker, 1851, Oxycera pygmaea (Fallén, 1817), Stratiomys pygmaea Fallén, 1817
N/A
oxpyg
(Fallén, 1817)
Insect - true fly (Diptera)
Species
12
7
7
09/06/1895
24/07/2025
30 May (recorded in 1940)
16 August (recorded in 1948)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Soldierflies (Stratiomyidae) of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Pygmy Soldier (Oxycera pygmaea), accessed 17 April 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/447/Species/87588