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Dark flies with reddish belly -> Sciara sp.
Karola
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 Hello,

these flies were on the flower of a Cirsium sp. The size was about 5 mm, maybe less.

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Germany, North-Rhine Westphalia, Mülheim, June 23rd, 2021
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 A fungus gnat (Sciaroidea) and it looks like one of the long-beaked genera. I don't know which you have in Germany.
 
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 Thank you. Looks like there are a lot of specimen.
 
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 Sciara (?hemerobioides)
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 Thank you. As I understand Sciara analis and S. hemerobioides cannot be seperated by appearance, so it could be either.

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