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in the insect database there are two Platycephala sp records from Honshu island. Both were described in the late 1900s.

The species are P. sasae and P. subelongata.

There is very little reed in Japan, but a lot of bamboo. I observed this fly on a sasa bamboo, so I assume it is P. sasae but it could well be P. subelongata.

Thx.