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Dear Henrik!

Ah, I see, thanks a lot! My general problem in Conopidae until now always was to decide, what is a "short" snout and what is a "long" snout. Now it`s clear!
Now, after your correction I found the jizz in Marks key at Leopoldius calceatus: "Looks like Conops strigatus on first sight, but snout short". Well, the snout length made me fail and get to Conops instead of Leopoldius:-(

Dear Theo!

I also studied John`s key now. I admit, that I had not used it so far, though John sent me a link to it in august 2013, after he asked for one of my pics of Leopoldius signatus for his key. My encounters with members of this fly family are very, very rare.
(Leopoldius calceatus is not included in John`s key, because it does not appear in the Netherlands)


I add another view (large pic turned 90° left), where the shiny abdomen and the black abdominal hairs are visible (ok, cloudy, unfortunately), which Mark mentions for L. calceatus in his key.

And abdominal end in small pic makes it a male, right?

Best regards, Thorsten