Posted by Tony Irwin on 24-03-2010 01:42
#3
This is
Coenia - I think
palustris, but difficult to be certain. It looks like the lower picture may be a male, in which case it's not
curvicauda (which has very large genitalia), and the pale haltere also suggests
palustris.
You may be confusing the presutural supra-alar with a postpronotal bristle - there should be a short (though still quite strong) postpronotal, if I remember correctly.
I have found that
palustris tends to have bronze-green reflections whereas
curvicauda has purple-bronze reflections, but this is not in itself a good character to use.
Cranefly can tell us whether
vulgata is easily separated from these two, but I don't think it occurs in Denmark.