Lamprolonchaea smaragdi

The specific name smaragdi comes from smaragd [via Latin from Greek smaragdos; emerald-coloured] which perfectly describes the brilliant green/blue body colour of this species.

As with many attractive widely distributed species this species was originally named by several authors from differing parts of its range and as a result there are a number of old synonyms including aurea (Macquart, 1851) type locality "Afrique"; splendida (Loew, 1873) type­ localities Sicily and Corfu. and cuprea (Becker, 1908) type­ locality Canary Islands.

Video images of this species from Italy   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KLFg_2012-10-15-%2842%29.webm