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Thanks Stephane & Andre....Syrphus sp. Male it will remain.

What's the problem with the lighting Andre? I've just got a new Laptop and the picture looks OK to me, haven't seen it on another computer screen. Photo was taken in a shaded area of the garden on French Marigolds, not in some studio where you can "arrange" lighting and background colouring.
And is as near as damn it to being in focus on the relevant bits for torvus which I don't think this is, unless the eye-hairs are (extremely) miniscule ????

Regards Roger