Philoliche (Phara) fuscanipennis Macquart, 1855 - Identification

Length about 19 mm. Thorax black with a band of yellow-golden pile on the anterior, lateral and posterior margins. Legs slate-black, clothed with black and orange hair: femora chocolate-brown, tibiae and tarsi ochraceous-tawny. Wings brown with brown veins; cell r5 closed before wing margin, vein R4 with appendix. Abdomen unmarked, shiny black with a purplish tinge.

Original description by Macquart:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53388#page/468/mode/1up

Description by Austen as Phara nigripleuris (with illustration of head):
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1937.tb00008.x

iNat observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22130810

Western Cape endemic, known from Ceres; Paarl dist; Worcester dist; Cape Agulhas; Stellenbosch

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