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Dark grey fly - ID ? --> Hilara sp. (Empididae)
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Northern Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Halstenbek near Hamburg, found in a region of tree nursery, length 4,4 mm, at a wall (covered with brown tiles) of a (dark) road tunnel; nearby a small wet uncultivated area; Outside Photos: kuv, 13th of May 2024.

I don't know the ID - but antenna and wing venation remind me a little bit to Xylomyidae. Please help to get the ID.
Greetings Kuv
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After a few minutes later I found a second fly with the same outlook --> picture::
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A Hilara species.
Jan Willem van Zuijlen
 
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Thank you very much Jan Willem Smile.
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