Taxonomic notes on Western Palaearctic Conopidae (Diptera) Author Stuke, Jens-Hermann text Zootaxa 2016 4178 4 521 534 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.4 91768d2f-3bdc-4512-bb6b-22f841103733 1175-5326 163589 0FC215B7-B640-42E5-9709-64CC15581D97 Key to colour morphs of Physocephala vittata ( Fabricius, 1794 ) 1 Pleura with distinct areas of dense dusting................................................................ 2 - Pleura without distinct areas of dense dusting.............................................................. 4 2 Dusting on pleura restricted to a spot dorsally on the katepisternum, anepisternum without dense dusting................................................................................ vittata , colour morph maculigera Kröber, 1915 - Dusting on the pleura forming a band that reaches more or less up the anepisternum to close to the notopleuron........... 3 3 Darker specimens: male: with at least epandrium black, and usually the apical segments of abdomen mainly black coloured; female: tergite 3 with a black band............................................ colour morph truncata Loew, 1847 - Lighter specimens: male: epandrium orange-brown like the rest of the abdomen; female: tergite 3 with a pair of black markings......................................................... vittata , colour morph pseudomaculigera Kröber, 1915 4 Tergite 4 shining, without a distinctly dusted hind margin................... vittata , colour morph detecta Becker, 1913 - Tergite 4 with a distinct broad dusted hind margin........................................................... 5 5 Dark specimens with black postcoxal bridge and thorax more or less completely black with the exception of the postpronotum.................................................................. vittata , colour morph fraterna ( Loew, 1847 ) - Lighter specimens with postcoxal bridge reddish orange and thorax paler with at most the mesoscutum black, and the pleura mostly reddish orange................................................................................. 6 6 Abdomen with distinct black markings; black colouration of mesoscutum not divided to three large black spots........................................................................................ vittata , typical colour morph - Abdomen more or less completely orange brown, at most with small pairs of black spots on tergites but not with black bands; black colouration of mesoscutum reduced and divided to three large black spots................................................................................................... vittata , colour morph abdominalis Kröber, 1915