Posted by Sundew on 02-08-2021 01:09
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Hi,
I am still searching for a
Brachicoma, and yesterday I saw this fly that looked rather good - at least the arista is not hairy, which points to Paramacronychiinae. The key by Whitmore et al. (2020) contains only
Brachicoma devia, but in Germany there is also
B. papei, and I don't know how to discriminate between the two. I show you some pictures, but are they identifiable? Sarcs are so tricky...
The locality was southwestern Germany (50 km west of Stuttgart), the fly was sitting on a hedgerow.
Thanks in advance for any comments, Sundew