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Muscidae ID => Hydrotaea dentipes
tristram
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Photos taken in Reading, UK, on 2012-06-15.

I thought this might be a female Hydrotaea sp. Is this correct?
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Another angle:
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I now think this is probably another Hydrotaea diabolus, like the one I saw here: http://www.dipter...ost_217533
 
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Hydrotaea is correct. Not too shining, not diabolus.
I think H. dentipes
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University
 
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Thank you, Nikita.
 
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