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Adrian - interesting - don't trouble to look up the reference now, but I will bear it in mind and start noting leg colour and habitat for this year's specimens and see what I get. My understanding was that E tessellata never has entirely red legs.

The site this specimen came from is Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, the last of the large scale 19th century cemeteries to be created in London (the first being the more well known Kensal Green). It is basically a mixed woodland (mostly deciduous, but a lot of ivy and holly) crisscrossed by many paths, lots of gravestones and with a number of glades and open grassy areas. The specimen was picked up on flowering umbellifers which run around the edge of one of the glades - halfway between the woodland and the open area, so half red legs, half black perhaps ;)