Scarce Orange Legionnaire Beris clavipes
This was swept from nettles. The similar Common Orange Legionnaire Beris vallata normally has the distal half or more of the hind tibia black whereas on this one only the tip was darkened. However vallata can occasionally have more extensively orange legs apparently, so supporting the ID as clavipes are the black thoracic hairs and (it being a female) strongly darkened wings lacking a yellow costal cell.
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female Scarce Orange Legionnaire Beris clavipes, showing scutellum, antennae from side, thorax from side and wing, Bintree Wood (Norfolk, UK), 20th May 2026