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vein section 0.738, distal section of Mi

+2 0.95, i.e., rm more basally placed than in Sphyracephala hrevicornis; dm-cu 0.235, distal section of CuA, 0.085, i.e., longer than is S. hrevicornis. Cell cup narrow. A,+CuA

2 vein ending halfway between base and wing margin. Haltères white or whitish yellow. Legs medium long and slender, no dorsal preapicals. Colour yellow including fore coxae, but fore femur blackish in apical third and in a patch from the dorsal surface to medio-latero-ventrally in an oblique narrow band; mid femur blackish dorsally in its apical third and hind femur in its whole apical third. Fore tibiae always black (except for knees), mid and hind tibia all black up to a small yellow knee area, or, this dark colour of mid tibia ventrally and laterally divided by a dirty ochreous stripe. Fore basitarsus all black, dorsal surface of other fore tarsomeres dark grey, at most 5th tarsomere lighter. Fore leg raptorial: fore femur strongly swollen, length/width on the holotype 2.41, similar also in females: 2.44. Both sexes with a double row of ventral short black spines from apex to basal third. Fore tibia curved to match the swelling of femur. Fore femur Figs 2-3. Sphyracephala europaea sp. n., paratype male, head: 2: oblique lateral-subdorsal view, 3: frontal view