Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Odd looking fly

Posted by LordV on 29-10-2006 07:14
#1
I assume this one has only just emerged. Taken Yesterday near a compost heap, South coast UK. Body length about 5mm. I tried to get the fly to turn round for a better angle by putting my finger near it- instead of that it walked straight up my finger onto my hand :) .

Any ideas on ID?

Brian V.

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Edited by LordV on 29-10-2006 07:30

Posted by Tony Irwin on 29-10-2006 08:48
#2
Well-marked thoracic suture, so Calyptratae; too small for any compost-breeding calliphorid or sarcophagid, so I think Muscidae, Anthomyiidae or Fanniidae. (Narrows it down a bit! :D)