Archive image from page 650 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 Empididae, 299 quite or nearly quite brown or black. Front femora slightly, middle femora somewhat thickened. The legs are yellowish haired. Wings pale yellowish; the veins hkewise pale yellow, the cubital and discal Fig. 135. Wing of T. hicolor. vein almost parallel or often somewhat convergent. Halteres yellowish white. Female. Quite similar to the male except the pointed abdomen. Length 2,5 to about 3 mm. This species is
Archive image from page 650 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 Empididae, 299 quite or nearly quite brown or black. Front femora slightly, middle femora somewhat thickened. The legs are yellowish haired. Wings pale yellowish; the veins hkewise pale yellow, the cubital and discal Fig. 135. Wing of T. hicolor. vein almost parallel or often somewhat convergent. Halteres yellowish white. Female. Quite similar to the male except the pointed abdomen. Length 2,5 to about 3 mm. This species is generally characterised by the parallel cubital and discal vein, but these veins are often somewhat convergent, as also Strobl states. The species is not easily distinguished from pallidiventris (see below under this species). is common in Denmark; Ermelund, 0rholm, Tisvilde, Nordskoven at Jaegerspris; in Jutland at Aalborg; my dates are '-;5—-'v. It occurs on bushes at the outskirts of woods and in low herbage on fields, I think most commonly on the latter places. Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Italy, and also down into North Africa; towards the north to middle Sweden, and in Finland. y. T. calceata Meig. 1822. Meig. Syst. Beschr. ill, 87, 45. — 1842. Zett. Dipt. Scand. I, 282,12. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 88 (Platypalpus). — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 281. Of this species I only know the female. Vertex and frons light grey; epistoma white; palpi not large, white haired. Occiput light grey with yellow bristles above, white hairs below. Antennae black or brown, the basal joints yellow, the third joint short, considerably shorter than the arista and not much longer than broad. Thorax not densely light grey pruinose, a little shining; all bristles pale or whitish yellow. Scutellum with two pale marginal bristles, and a
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