Dolichopus signatus

5.5-7.5mm. A typical Dolichopus with a metallic green body and largely yellow legs. See the ID checklist below for details of the identifying characters.

Other Dolichopus species.

Female:

• 5-5.75mm
• Green metallic body, mainly yellow legs
• lower post-ocular hairs pale
• First segment of hind tarsus with 2 dorsal bristles but none on the mid tarsus first segment
• Hind tibia yellow with dark tip
• Dorsal vein kinked with both bends smoothly obtuse
• Hind femur with 1 apical bristle
• Hind coxa largely dark but yellow at the apices
• First antennal segment dull yellow with a black dorsal surface. 2nd dirty yellow and 3rd black.
• Arista inserted from the apical third on the 3rd antennal segment
• Scutellum with a band of around 10 short pale hairs along the hind margin

Damp areas.

June-August

Locally common, mainly in Wales and western Britain, but with scattered records elsewhere.

Uncommon.