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can be classified? thanks!
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 It looks like a tachinid but those red eyes and the deeply concave section of the median vein after the bend is also shouting "sarcophagid" ... so I am not sure Smile
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 so many bristles, nauw, it is a Tachinid alright.

No idea which one, though


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