Chamaepsila persimilis
Wakerley, 1959: General features. A comparatively small fly with a black body, reddish.brown head and yellow legs
Key: Shatalkin & Merz, 2010
Distribution
Europe: Countries (published), online at Fauna Europaea, Occurrences at GBIF
UK: Recording Scheme map of occurrences 2016 (verified.) Online (NBN Atlas) via Easy maps or Interactive Atlas
Found in low vegetation and small shrubs such as privet and elder.
Wakerley, 1959
Pails persimilis sp. n.
General features. A comparatively small fly with a black body, reddish.brown head and yellow legs.. The abdomen of the female is slightly larger than that of the male. Wing length: M and F, 3.3-3.7 mm.
Coiour : head reddish.brown with the ocelli located on a raised black spot which forms the anterior point of a triangular, darkened area extending over the occiput; eyes dull red; scape and pedicel reddish brown ; third antennal segment darkened but not complately black (fig. 1A); olypeus varying from reddish brown to dark brown; palps and theca always reddish brown. Thorax, with exception of prothorax, lustrous black with yellow membranous areas; cervical sclerites, prothorax and an adjacent small area of the mesothorax, red (the full extentt of tbis area ie shown in figure 1B (darkly stippled), but its colour may vary from completely black to red). Legs pale yellow. Abdomem glossy black.
Structure: hypopygium with large serrations on internal lateral margin; claspers small tuberculate structures, and if turned outwards seen to be of.a more or less rectangular shape; basal part of aedeagus broad and V-shaped, whilst distal portion is short and very narrow (fig. 1C) ; three or four pairs of setae usually present on lateral margin of ninth sternite.
Chaetotaxy: head bearing 3 vertical, I postverticai, 2 orbital and 1 ocellar bristles; thorax bearing 1 notopleural, 1 infra-alar, 1 supra.alar, 2 dorsocentrai and 1 scutellar bristles.