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Phaonia tuguriorum female
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 I think that this is a Phaonia, if so is it possible to say what species it is? -or a few "candidates" that I can check further?
Found on a house wall outside Stockholm Sweden november 2023
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 wing about 6 mm
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 hindleg (the left one in the middle)
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 Your fly has a partly orange scutellum and only one pair of pre-scutellar acrostichals. A good place to start is Phaonia tuguriorum.

James
 
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 Many thanks James. I have checked with a key for Phaonia and concluded that it is a female of Phaonia tuguriorum
BR Ole
 
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