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 Morning of 31.01.2025, park of conference hotel near Muscat/Oman, less than 3mm. Could you help with ID please, also woth an educated guess o the prey? Thank you very much, Jörg
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 Chloropidae scavenging Ceratopogonidae.
 
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 Chloropid - Elachiptera?
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