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Pic taken by Arturo López, cut from here http://www.biodiv..._id=220119
- C Spain
- april, 17.
- wetland with crops

There are no more views at the moment, in case there are I will upload them too.

Thanks in advance :)

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If you had more pics, definitely could help for ID!?! ;)

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It's a Lipara Paqui. The biggest of the Chloropidae :-)
None recorded from Spain (MCT 2002), but I photographed one some years ago. Very frequent, I see their galls everytime and everywhere. Unfortunately seems unidentifiable by photo.

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Many thanks for your help! :D:D

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Ok, thanks Isidro. I looked for synonms:

** Now in F.E.:
- Lipara baltica Karps 1978
- Lipara lucens Meigen 1830
- Lipara pullitarsis Doskocil & Chvala 1971
- Lipara rufitarsis Loew 1858
- Lipara similis Schiner 1854

** In Faune de France:
- Lipara lucens
- Lipara oscinella (dissapeared? it doesn´t fit anyway)
- Lipara tomentosa (old Calamoncosis rufitarsis -> Lipara rufitarsis now?)
- Lipara similis

** In Lindner:
- "baltica"-> Oscinnis baltica (Chlorops baltica, Chlorops magnicornis) (anyway, its distribution doesn't fit)

- I find no "pullitarsis" but it´s recorded from France (?)

I hope he has another view
Thanks

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Lipara lucens Meigen, 1830 (Chloropidae, Oscinellinae), The adjective lucens means "shining" and describes the slightly golden hairs which densely cover the robust fly, different from two other blackish Lipara species, pullitarsis and rufitarsis. L. similis is smaller, less robust, with longer silvery hairs.
The larvae of the valid 5 European Lipara spp. produce galls in reed (Phragmites australis). These cigar-like galls are the focus of a great many of scientific publications and dissertations.
Lipara lucens