Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Belgian Physocephala

Posted by Eric Steckx on 10-10-2021 18:09
#1

Hello,

My wife asks me about this "old" picture.
Physocephala, but which ?
No better face view.
Belgium 18/6/2019

Thanks for help

Posted by eklans on 10-10-2021 18:19
#2

Hi Eric, I've tried with the Van Veen key:
- Sides of thorax without silverish stripe
- Face below antennal implant with a black stripe, above the antennal implant partly blackish
- antennae blackish
That makes P. rufipes.

Posted by Eric Steckx on 10-10-2021 18:40
#3

Hi Eric,
I have reached the same and it is the most common species in Belgium. But the first completely red abdominal segments looked weird to me.