Archive image from page 311 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 J30 Orthorrhapha brachycera. Loew, Linn. Entom. I. 384, 1. - 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 67. - 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 204. Male. Frons transverse, strongly protruding, together with face and occiput grey, whitish along the anterior eye-margins; frons and face with long, erect black hairs, at the mouth aperture whitish hairs; posterior eye-margin with yellow or brownish hairs which are long and erect above. Antennae black. Th
Archive image from page 311 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 J30 Orthorrhapha brachycera. Loew, Linn. Entom. I. 384, 1. - 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 67. - 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 204. Male. Frons transverse, strongly protruding, together with face and occiput grey, whitish along the anterior eye-margins; frons and face with long, erect black hairs, at the mouth aperture whitish hairs; posterior eye-margin with yellow or brownish hairs which are long and erect above. Antennae black. Thorax dark grey or blackish, with two indistinct, lighter, longitudinal stripes in front; it is some- what sparingly clothed with erect, whitish or pale yellowish hairs. Pleura clothed in the same way, there are long hairs especially on the posterior part of the mesopleura; metapleura without hairs. Abdomen dull black, clothed with long, erect hairs which are more whitish than on thorax; they are somewhat indistinctly arranged in transverse rows; at the apex there are a few dark or blackish hairs. Venter grey with long, whitish hairs. Legs blackish or dark brown, the femora with longish, white hairs below. Wings hyaline, the me- diastinal cell yellowish tinged; veins pale brown; the cubital fork somewhat long and thus the base of the fork lying over the cross- Fig. 44. Wing of P. pulicaria. vein closing the discal cell apically, or nearer the base of the wing; the two posterior branches issuing from the discal cell somewhat converging. Halteres yellowish, the knob more or less darkened. Female. Ground colour lighter grey than in the male, and the two lighter stripes on thorax broader, thorax thus being nearly light grey with a dark middle line. Jowls and the lower part of occiput whitish yellow, on the latter a dark middle stripe stretching to the posterior edge of the mouth aperture; on each side of the face from the base of the antenna to the eye a dark brown spot which str
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