''Nemotelus'' is a genus of soldier flies in the family

Stratiomyidae The soldier flies (Stratiomyidae, sometimes misspelled as Stratiomyiidae, from Greek - soldier; - fly) are a family of flies (historically placed in the now-obsolete group Orthorrhapha). The family contains over 2,700 species in over 380 extan ...

. There are at least 190 described species in ''Nemotelus''. ''Nemotelus'' is known from the

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and the

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regions. File:Nemotelus pantherinus, Newborough Warren, North Wales, July 2012 2 (17298638368).jpg, ''Nemotelus pantherinus'' lateral view ''Nemotelus'' are among the smallest (4.0 to 8.0 mm) Stratiomyidae. The species are black or (most) black with more or less, often greatly extended white spots; the colouring is different in the two sexes. The head is round but the face has a pointed snout bearing the antennae on the dorsal side. The facial lobe, below the antennae, is conical and prominent and the whole facial area is pushed anteriorly by the expansion of the parafacials, and of the frons immediately above the antennae. The eyes of the male almost meet, and the eyes have smaller facets in the ventral part. The proboscis is geniculate. Body-shape and wing-venation are generally similar to that of '' Oxycera'' except that R4+5 is usually forked, and R 2+a is faint. The basal segment of gonopods in male on the lower side is fused with the hypandrium which has two more or less elongated median outgrowths;basal segment with lateral outgrowth at apex on outer side. ''Nemotelus'' species are not lively, and are easily caught with the fingers. They occur in the neighbourhood of water, in fens and similar localities, where they often are seen on the flowers of Umbelliferae and Compositae, sometimes in large numbers. Some of them seem to prefer salt marshes.Seguy. E. ''

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Faune n° 13 1926. Diptères Brachycères. 308 p., 685 fig.

Selected species

*Subgenus '' Camptopelta'' :*'' N. aldrichi'' ( Williston, 1917) :*'' N. nigrinus'' Fallén, 1817 :*'' N. wilfordhansoni'' (Woodley, 2001) *Subgenus '' Nemotelus'' :*'' N. albitarsis'' Lindner, 1965 :*'' N. annulipes'' Lindner, 1965 :*'' N. assimilis'' Lindner, 1965 :*'' N. barracloughi'' (Mason, 1997) :*'' N. basilaris'' (Woodley, 2001) :*'' N. mongolia'' (Woodley, 2001) :*'' N. natalensis'' Lindner, 1965 :*'' N. nigribasis'' Lindner, 1965 :*'' N. notatus''

Zetterstedt Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (20 May 1785 – 23 December 1874) was a Sweden, Swedish Naturalism (philosophy) , naturalist who worked mainly on Diptera and Hymenoptera. Biography Zetterstedt studied at the Lund University, University of Lund, where ...

, 1842 :*'' N. pantherinus'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...

) :*'' N. stuckenbergi'' Lindner, 1965 :*'' N. tricolor'' Lindner, 1965 :*'' N. tschorsnigi'' (Mason, 1997) :*'' N. uliginosus'' (

, 1767)

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