Vanoyia tenuicornis, the long-horned soldier, is a European species of soldier fly.
Description Vanoyia tenuicornis is strongly sexually dimorphic. The male has a black thorax and black abdomen, and no yellow pattern except on the notopleural suture and postalar callus. Legs mostly black. The female has an extensively yellow mesopleuron, and a yellow scutellum. Legs of the female are mainly orange. A remarkable species with long antenna; which apparently have no terminal style. The genus is distinguished from Oxycera solely "by the structure of the antenna. The third segment retains five clearly marked annuli, terminated by a sixth annulus which is blunt and hairy ie.it lacks the spine-like tip to the flagellum that is characteristic of Oxycera. Instead, tGeorge Henry VerrallStratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain- British flies (1909) BHL Full text with illustrationsSeguy. E. Faune de France Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig. Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera Brachycera: Tabanoidea and Asiloidea (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/4) Royal Entomological Society, London.
Distribution Belgium, Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, North Africa
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