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 Good morning, the subject can be a dipter of the family of Lonchaeidae - Silba sp. o Muscidae - Hydrotaea chalcogaster?
Thank you. Wink
Photographed in Grosseto (Italy) 22/06/2014.

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 Hi I don't think this is Lonchaeidae - its not too easy to tell from the photos but the tarsi look too long and narrow

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 I was also in doubts. Well, if Iain wrote that it is not his charge, than it should be mine. In this case Ophyra chalcogaster seems to me a reasonable guess.
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