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This Urophora is from may from western Sicily. But the species are too similar for me. What could it be?

(wing length about 7,5 mm).

Thanks
Michael

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I once again looked at it after I found the article "A revision of the western Palaearctic species of Urophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tephritidae)" from White and Korneyev.

I end up rather easily at Urophora terebrans. Here are some of the diagnostic characters - besides the wing pattern:
- femora darkened except for their apex
- flagellomere yellow or orange (see image)
- wing length of this female is 4,7 mm. (The 7,5 mm in my previous post was not the wing length but the length from the mouth to the wing tip, the ovipositor not taken into account)
- basal scutellar setae not on the black part of scutellum, but at the border between black and yellow part.

Michael