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Hello people,

Hopfully this is not taken as being inconsiderate. But experience has taught me that photo-id like this one can be too optimistic. I've had the experience of being painfully wrong. Having said that, I will publish a Therevidae new for the Netherlands based on a photograph in the coming month...

@Xylosoma, I would not identify the specimen based on habitat. In the Netherlands B. panzeri is more typical of mixed and coniferous woods and B. dorsata more common than B. panzeri and typical of deciduous woods...
Btw, do you have a reference for that Merz paper. Or even better could you send a .pdf?

@John, that is (again) some very impressive detective work! It is certainly new to me that not the presence of bristles, but the colour is seen as diagnostic.

And as to your comment: "My first post should have ended the conversation."
Hopefully not, as I think we've learned quite a lot. And I'd enjoy that we respectfully disagree, converse and learn from each other in the future...

Kind regards,
Ectemnius