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Anthomyia pluvialis?
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 Mediterranean scrub. South center of spain. 600 m. June.
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 Looks more like Anthomyia procellaris to me.
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Juergen Peters wrote:
Looks more like Anthomyia procellaris to me.


The lateral spots are small.
 
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 pluvialis for me too. Following Michelsen's paper on the Anthomyia pluvialis complex, here we cannot check the main diagnostic character (lenght of hairs on arista), but all other characters fit quite well.
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