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Hello
size 3-4 mm
Thank you for help

specimen 1

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specimen 2

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Perhaps Dilophus femoratus?

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Theo?
Is this correct?

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No, this is one of the other Dilophus species, as this female does not have darkened wings.

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Stop.

First of all, D. femoratus has (nearly) clear wings. It is febrilis, that has darkened wings.
Second, my guess is that the first specimen has darkened wings -> febrilis
Thirdly, the second one does not, so it is another species and thus another specimen(right ?)
femoratus-group, possibly femoratus


Theo

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Yes theo, you are right, I made an error in this post by putting these two different specimens.
Moreover the second is really bigger than the first one, approximately 5 mm.
Thank Theo for the the precision.

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I think the first one does not have darkened wings and, AFAIK, febrilis has completely dark legs in the female.

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Another photo of the first specimen.

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Leg coloration tends to be very variable in many Bibionidae
(though agreed, not all).

The wing is distinctly darkened, so it really must be febrilis.
I'll check my collection
Theo

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so, I did, and I must say, Paul has a point.

IN all my females febrilis, the front (and other) legs are black, whereas in all femoratus they are clearly reddish.

So looks like it is femoratus, in which case I have been fooled in the wing colouration (ie. it is not darkened).


Theo

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Sorry, but first specimen is neither febrilis, which has always entirely black legs and dark abdomen, nor femoratus which has milky white wings.
I would incline for antipedalis : the female has more or less darkened wing membrane, anterior femora and coxa rufous yellow, a transverse row of large spines on anterior tibia and abdominal sternites clearly lighter than tergites. D. antipedalis is a west-mediterranean species (and this specimen was apparently photographed in Provence).
The second specimen is not recognizable in my opinion because of the poor quality of the picture.

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What more do you need? Unless you have specimens I guess there will be no change in ID's

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Colobo,
According to Fauna Europaea, D. antipedalis is only present in Spain mainland, Portugal, Sardinia, Balearic is. For one time, the territory seems coherent (this is not always the case). I know that Christoophe lives in the south, but not so far away.