6.5-8.6mm. A grey/brown muscid with patterned dusting on the abdomen and black stripes on the thorax. It has all black legs, a plumose arista and slightly yellow-tinted wings.

Other Phaonia species.

• c6.5-8.6mm
• grey-brown
• all black legs
• plumose arista
• 1 pair post-suture acrostichals + 3 pairs of dorsocentrals
• front tibia without a posterior bristle
• middle femora with strong posteroventral bristles on the basal half

This species needs to be keyed.

Summer.

Uncommon but widespread in England.

Rare or under-recorded.