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Hello,

I had a Loxocera albiseta in the forum a while ago :

http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=884#post_3243

This one from last week (Brunssummerheide) was half as big,
but when I use the key of van der Goot / van Veen it can only be one of the bigger Loxocera's.
The only two possibilities are L. albiseta (again) or L. aristata but they should both have a (mostly) black abdomen.
So now a do have a key but still no name for the animal.

Ben

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Hi Ben.
May be L. fulviventris? Small Loxocera with siutable colour and short arista plumage, according key I have.
Nikita

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Hi Nikita,

In van der Goot / van Veen it says that in L. fulviventris the third segment of the antenna is much longer then the arista. My fly doesn't seem to have that.
I meanwhile think it is L. aristata which, according to this key, rarely can have a bit of brown (in this case a lot of red) at the side of the (normally black) abdomen.

Thanks anyway,

Ben