Scathophaga inquinata Meigen, 1826

Male very yellow with golden pubescence and dusting and rather orange-yellow legs, often with the yellow abdomen contrasting with the browner thorax. Thorax and humeri unicolourous. Wings also yellow tinged, especially around the costa. Female darker with the thorax dark grey and abdomen yellow-grey, but darkened on the base and hind margins of the tergites. Male 5th sternite distinctive although care is needed because the abdomen often shrivels in dried specimens and it can be quite difficult to work out which bit to look at. Wing length: ♂ 5.2 - 6.5 - 8.7 mm (36); ♀ 5.7 - 7.0 - 9.2 mm (22).