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tiny shiny muscid -> Coenosia atra
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Posted on 24-09-2021 00:11
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This Drosophila-sized muscid (or Fanniid?) was caught on Ivy in Vienna, late September.

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Edited by Carnifex on 24-09-2021 20:30
Cheers, Lorin

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Looks like Coenosia atra
 
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First image C atra
Second pair of images illustrate the follows: make photoof dry specimen or (worse)specimen in alcohol, but do not make photo of half-dried specimen!
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University
 
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Happy with my smartphone photo being sufficient for the ID.

The following two pictures where taken with a smartphone through a binocular microscope, with some disturbing light probably shining from the side (it was barely possible to distinguish the bristles on the shiny black body even when looking through the bino with bare eyes). However, the specimen was freeze killed and not in contact with EtOH, so the photos only give an impression of being 'half dried'
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