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Eudasyphora cyanicolor
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 Water meadows/Reedbed, Hampshire UK 10th August 2011

Do I have the right family even?
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 the same fly
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 Muscidae -- Eudasyphora, Morellia, or one of the other shiny ones.

Note that the M vein is not bent sharply but gradually.
 
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 Thanks John, and thank you for the diagnostic reasoning, very useful to us beginners!
 
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 Eudasyphora cyanicolor.
Stephane.
 
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 Many thanks Stephane
 
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