Daschia brevitarsis (Thomson 1890, Homotropus)

Homocidus conjungens Schmiedeknecht 1927

Diagnosis. Fore wing length 3.5–4.0 mm. Antenna in females with 16, in males with 16–17 flagellomeres. Propodeum with carinae irregular, mostly replaced by strong rugae, almost disappearing against the strongly rugose background.

Colouration of females. Antenna black, paler below. Head and mesosoma black, face black, orange on clypeus and mouthparts, yellow on tegula, and sometimes upper mesepimeron; scutellum black. Legs orange, coxae and trochanters black; femora orange; hind tibia orange, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma with tergite 2 apically and tergite 3 entirely orange, but this colouration often dark.

Colouration of males. As in female, face and most of mesosoma black. Metasoma often dark.

Material examined. Lectotype ♂ (not a female as previously reported) of Homotropus brevitarsis Thomson: Switzerland, Grisons, Chur. 1♂, at ZIL.

Germany (1), Hungary (2), Switzerland (14).

Distribution. Western Palaearctic.

Figures. Clypeus (Fig. 12 I), metasoma ♀ (Fig. 13 G), habitus (Fig. 28 D), male terminal sclerites (Fig. 37 A).