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Is not H. morio, but I don't know if can be maura, velutina or another spp. It's bigger than the "normal" hemipenthes that I usually see: size as an Anthrax anthrax.

Yesterday. Juslibol, Zaragoza, Spain. Dry gypsiferous steppes.




Thanks,
Isidro

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Gibbs where are you?

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This is impossible????? I can't believe!!!

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I see no reason why this would not be H. velutina.

I believe that size is not very important with Bombyliid flies. I think the size depends on the availibility of food. Conspecific individuals may therefore show a huge variation in size.

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Thanks Gabor, I let it as H. velutina. I asked because I don't know the features that distinguish the four Hemipenthes species recorded from my region. I call the black-bodied H. morio and the white-striped H. velutina but are also H. maura and other that I don't remember the name.