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Hello!

Last night in our garden (northwest Germany) together with the Mirid bug Orthops campestris, which measures about 4-5 mm.

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there are many genera with that 3 stripes on thorax, and some other genera with that stripes on abdomen and the spots on "knees" and tarsus, so just as a starting point, female Cricotopus, it will "appearantly" fit, at least, but don´t trust, I´m unable to find the synonims from the faune de france to today´s species and palaeartic keys are old too and very expensive : ( good luck (and nice pic, they are difficult to shot for me)

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Hello, paqui!



Many thanks! Now that you write it, I remember some earlier Chironomids, which were identified here as Cricotopus sp.. Same size, same yellow colour, similar stripes on thorax, but not so distinctive one on abdomen.

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sorry, I´m learning, looking at Faune de France keys for Cricotopus there are different patterns of b/w bands on abdomen and C. trifasciatus confused me; the book species has not the white line among the last 2 black terguites as the one you posted (yes has a white line between the first 2 terguites, 2 more black terguites and the last one), I´still can´t dischart other genera, but trying this (be careful, nearctic) it´s reasonable, at least : (
http://bugguide.net/node/view/249274/bgimage
the second one has a bigger dark spot than yours
I hope any expert says something : |

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Thanks, paqui!

By the way a correction: the Mirid bug is not Orthops campestris, but Lygocoris (Neolygus) viridis (ID by R. Dietze).

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could these other two be Potthastia ??

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They are not Potthastia. I think they are Orthocladiinae.

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thanks :)