Chrysopilus laetus is a Palearctic species of snipe fly in the family Rhagionidae.Verrall, G. H., 1909 Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain British flies Volume 5 London : Gurney and Jackson, 1909.BHL Full text with illustrations
The wings have a distinct, if interrupted, dark band extending from the stigma across the radial fork and tip of discal cell and a second spot near apex of Cu1. The body is mainly yellow.The first two antenna segments are orange. Oldroyd, H., 1969 Diptera Brachycera: Tabanoidea and Asiloidea (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/4) Royal Entomological Society, London Lindner, E., 1924-38, Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region 24 : (Brachycera). Stuttgart.
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