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 6.10.2024, park in Kyoto/Japan. Rather large fly, around 18mm, I guess. Can you please help identifying it. Andd any idea what she is feeding? Thank you so much, Jörg
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 Subfamily Asilinae, something in the Machimus-group.
 
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 Thank you Chris! in the meantime, a Japanese participant on Facebook diptera has suggested Machimus hisamatsui, which seems convincing to me.
 
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