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Hello!

Sorry, I did not manage to make better pics of this 1.5 mm flies, which are very common in our garden at the moment (Ostwestfalen/Germany). Because I have no literature about Dolichopodids, I don't even know the genus.


Additional pics:
http://www.foto-u..._2mm_4.jpg
http://www.foto-u..._2mm_5.jpg
http://www.foto-u..._2mm_6.jpg

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I think they are all Chrysotus

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Hello, Tony!



Many thanks! I see there are 15 species here in Germany.

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Most common and widespread (and most probable on your photos):
Chrysotus gramineus (Fallen, 1823) [Dolichopus] (Zetterstedt, 1843: Dipt.Scand. 2: 483) *
=Dolichopus gramineus Fallen, 1823: Monogr.Dolichop.Svec. [= Dipt.Svec. 2]: 19 ** Type locality: not given [Sweden]. Palaearctic: Andorra, Armenia; Austria, Azerbaijan; Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria; China; Czech, Denmark, Estonia; Finland, France, Georgia; Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kirgizia, Korea; Latvia; Lithuania, Moldova; Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania; Russia: Altai, Arkhangelsk, Bashkortostan, Blagoveshchensk, Buryatia, Chelyabinsk, Chukotka, Irkutsk, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karelia, Kostroma, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nodgorod, Orel, Pskov, Ryazan, Sakhalin, Tomsk, ?Ural, Vladivostok, Vologda, Voronezh; Slovakia, ?Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine: Cherkasy, Crimea, Kharkiv, Kherson; Yugoslavia; ?Afrotropical: ?Rhodesia, ?South Africa * Chrysotus

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Hello, Igor!



Thanks! That is indeed one of the 15 species listed in "Entomofauna germanica" :-).