Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Odd looking fly

Posted by richard_thomas100 on 07-05-2007 23:35
#1

Hi, i took this image around mid-June last year whilst looking for Wood Whites at Powerstock Common, Dorset. A variety of habitats with meadows, woodland, grassy verges and ponds. Its got a distinctive curved abdomen, but i can't place it. Approx. 10-11 mm.

Can anybody offer a species or genus?

Thanks

Richard

Posted by fleabag on 08-05-2007 02:11
#2

Hi,
I think it could be an Empidae of some sort,if that helps.

Noel.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 08-05-2007 05:56
#3

Empis femorata.