P. rufipes (Fabricius, 1781)

Conops rufipes Fabricius 1781: 466; type-locality: “ Germania ”; no information available about type material [ZMUC]

Diagnosis. see Chvála (1961) and Stuke (2006).

= P. laticincta (Brullé, 1832) syn. nov.

Conops laticinctus Brullé, 1832: 680; type-locality: “Caritène” [Greece]; holotypus ♂ [MNHN]

The only character used to separate Physocephala laticincta from Physocephala rufipes is the black base of the femora in the former species. Numerous intermediates have been examined by the author of the present paper, however, and there are no other characters to date that allow one to distinguish the two reliably. As a consequence, I interpret the leg colouration as infraspecific variability and therefore place P. laticincta as a junior synonym of P. rufipes (syn. nov.).