Habitat: Edges of forests – especially coniferous ones, clearings, thickets. Length 13-19 mm. Body grey-brown-black. Facial mound well developed, reaching halfway up the face when viewed from the side. Top of body covered with long bristles both behind and in front of the thoracic suture. In the middle of the scutum and prescutum usually two black, shiny, elongated, very close together streaks. Black legs. Ovipositor black, in the basal part with long hairs on the underside. Epandrium (visible, saddle-like part of the male's genitalia) long, pointed. Transparent wings. Similar to numerous other black-legged robber flies, which are most easily distinguished by the structure of their genitalia and the lack of long hairs on the underside of the female ovipositor.
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