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Posted by Juergen Peters on 13-08-2019 22:22

Hello,

after looking at it with the bare eye, I first thought of some small Fannia. But after closer inspection on the PC it turned out to be a little (ca. 4 mm) Phasia. Possibly P. obesa? At night at the door light of our house (northwest Germany). Sorry, only photo.

Edited by Juergen Peters on 14-08-2019 20:05

Posted by eklans on 14-08-2019 10:28

Hi Jürgen, I think it's P. obesa but you cannot surely exclude aurulans without looking at Sternit 7. The size 4 mm will also point to obesa.

Eric

Edited by eklans on 14-08-2019 10:29

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-08-2019 20:04

Thanks a lot, Eric and Theo!

Today I also found P. obesa, P. hemiptera and Ectophasia crassipennis by daylight on flowers (and hundreds of Tachina cf. fera).

Posted by Zeegers on 15-08-2019 07:41

Great !
Look on Heracleum for the very small barbifrons.
And in 1-2 weeks time, aurgiera should appear.

Theo

Posted by Juergen Peters on 15-08-2019 20:20

Hello Theo,

Zeegers wrote:
Look on Heracleum for the very small barbifrons.

yes, I found it there in big numbers in the last years, but not this year. Only several P. obesa and one or two P. hemiptera yesterday.

And in 1-2 weeks time, aurgiera should appear.

That one was also numerous in the last years (mainly on Mentha), but in 2018 I only found one single male specimen (pic below) - on September, 5th, at rather low temperatures in a forest (!).