Posted by Jan Willem on 07-12-2021 13:19
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Hello John,
Very late response:
It's always a bit tricky because I have also seen specimens of
Opomyza germinationis with a rather "petrei-like" abdomen. In those cases you see the stripes along the sides of the abdomen, but the area next to that stripe is not that convincingly orange/reddish. In your picture is looks rather orange/reddish, but in the smaller picture it isn't that convincingly orange/reddish.
For me the best I could make of this is
Opomyza cf. petrei.
Presence (
O. petrei) or absence (
O. germinationis) of hairs on the proepisternum should tell which species you are dealing with (not visible in the photos).