---

hey Michael,
to separate the females of these two species you can look at the dust on the frons and the colour of the hindcoxa, both characters which I found difficult to see on your pictures. But the female ofBrachypalpus laphriformis would have the transverse suture on the thoracic dorsum grey dusted, which isn't in your specimen. Thats why I would say that it could be a female B. valgus. Nevertheless it is a very uncertain determination.

Thanks Tristram, you are right it was a spelling mistake of me.

Happy easter to everybody
hubert