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Small Empid fly ?
LordV
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 Assume this is a small dance fly ?
Taken Yesterday about 4mm body length sitting on a clay flowerpot South coast UK.

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 Hybotidae: Tachypeza nubila
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Paul Beuk wrote:
Hybotidae: Tachypeza nubila


Thanks for the ID Paul Smile

Thought Hybotids were more hunch-backed than this ?

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 Hybotinae, mostly yes, Tachydromiinae (including Tachydromia, Tachypeza, Platypalpus and a few others), no.
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