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 24.07.2024 in our garden in Rheinbach near Bonn (Germany), 210 m above sea level. About 4mm. Thank you for your help, Jörg
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 I think Minettia lupulina.
 
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 Minettia lupulina has a black margin to the scutellum that extends onto the dorsal surface, in M. desmometopa the black margin is on the sides of the scutellum only. Here is no black margin, so I think tyhis is M. flaviventris.
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 Many thanks to all of you. I feel safe to go for M. flaviventris!
 
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