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Cor Zonneveld
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Posted on 01-05-2008 15:39
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I saw several of these rather smallish (5 - 6 mm) flies in a bramble bush near a ditch, Amstelveen, the Netherlands. They had smoky wings, and the abdomen is a kind of dark bronze coloured. All in all, a rather dark fly.

Any hope at a (partial) ID?
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and a portrait
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Hebecnema sp. Muscidae.
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It seems for me that we can't see halteres, because its are black:
H.cf.nigra
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Thanks, next time I'll try to see halteres!
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