Key: The European species of Xylophagus (Diptera: Xylophagidae)
A key to the five European species of the genus Xylophagus (Diptera: Xylophagidae). Author: Jere Kahanpää (kahanpaa at iki. fi). This key is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
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Key (online version)
1a	Basal segment of antenna long, length at least 3x width [Fig. 77]	2
b	Basal segment of antenna short, length less than 2x width [Fig. 75]	4
2a	Males: mesonotum finely sculpured, almost shining, with two inconspicuous stripes of golden hairs. [Fig. 82] Females: mesonotum with three pollinose stripes [Fig. 87] Xylophagus ater Meigen, 1804
b	Mesonotum pollinose, only lateral margins shining. [Fig. 86] Basal antennal segment very long (length 4x width)	3
3a	Frons lustrous [Fig. 89] Xylophagus kowarzi (Pleske, 1925)
b	Upper half of fron matt [Fig. 90] Xylophagus matsumurae Miyatake, 1965
4a	Mesonotum and 1st tergite pollinose [Fig. 88] Xylophagus cinctus (De Geer, 1776)
b	Mesonotum and 1st tergite lustrous Xylophagus junki (Szilády, 1932)

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