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Empis (was "Please ID this fly")
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 This is the female Empis lookalike feeding on Geranium
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 Certainly an empid of come kind - Paul might know more.

Also, could you change the titles to make them more descriptive? It helps readers remember which they have looked at and helps specialists home-in on relevant posts. For instance, if you think it is an empid then just say so in the title - nobody will criticise you if you are wrong Smile
 
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 Should be Empis (Xanthempis) sp, a female indeed. Do you have a dorsal shot showing the thoracic pattern?
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 Here is the dorsal photo you requested
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 Should be trigramma.
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 Thanks for the ID. This is a new species for Shetland, according to the Shetland Entomological Group records only 2 species of Empidae have been recorded here, tessellata and verralli.
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