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Unknown family: very small, very long arista
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Probably Leptocera nigra, female
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Thanks, Paul.
I had a go at trying to identify it using the key in Pitkin's thesis.
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/38136/2/Pitkin-BR-1986-PhD-Thesis.pdf

I get to Leptocera but I struggle to get to species as I think I am misinterpreting the tibial spines.
 
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It helps if you can manage to make a phot of the ventral side of the mid tibia
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