. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. 388 Orthorrhapha brachycera. Female. Epistoma not broader than in the male. Abdomen yellow, the first segment more or less aeneous or greenish; in the middle of the second segment, at the hind margin, a small, black, sometimes brown spot, and the apex Fig. 123. Wing of C. molliculus d". Length 2,2—2,5 mm. C. molliculus is not common in Denmark, and has only been taken in Ordrup Mose (Staeger, the author). The dates are in July. Stseger took his specimens on Gorylus. Geographical distribution:— Europe
. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. 388 Orthorrhapha brachycera. Female. Epistoma not broader than in the male. Abdomen yellow, the first segment more or less aeneous or greenish; in the middle of the second segment, at the hind margin, a small, black, sometimes brown spot, and the apex Fig. 123. Wing of C. molliculus d". Length 2,2—2,5 mm. C. molliculus is not common in Denmark, and has only been taken in Ordrup Mose (Staeger, the author). The dates are in July. Stseger took his specimens on Gorylus. Geographical distribution:— Europe down into Italy; towards the north to middle Sweden. 2. C. concinnus Zett. 1843. Zett. Dipt. Scand. II, 489, 11, et 1859. XIII, 5037, 11 {Chrysotus). — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 349. — Dolichopus molliculus Fall. 1823. Dipt. Suec. Dol. 23, 35, Male. Vertex and frons green, slightly pruinose. Epistoma green. Palpi yellowish. Occiput greenish, a little greyish pruinose; postocular bristles white. The vertical bristles yellow. Antennae with the two basal joints yellow, the third brown. Thorax bright green or golden green, a little greyish pruinose; all bristles yellow. Pleura green, greyish pruinose, especially behind; metaepimera of the same colour; propleura with a pale prothoracic bristle. Abdomen bright green, sometimes somewhat coppery, clothed with yellow hairs; there are somewhat short hindmarginal bristles, long on the first segment. Venter yellowish with pale hairs. Legs yellow, the last tarsal joint more or less brown at the apex. The legs have pale hairs, the front coxae somewhat bristly hairs at the apex; posterior coxae each with a pale bristle; femora short-haired; middle femora with one preapical bristle, hind femora with two, one above the other; middle tibiae with two antero- and two postero-dorsal bristles; hind tibiae with a few bristles above; all bristles yellow. Wings slightly yellowish. Please note that these images are extracted from scan
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