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Muscidae: Fannia lustrator
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 South of Sweden, 2012-05-02.

This fly caught my attention when it hovered like a syrphid, over a pile of dry branches, in the shade of a big tree.
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 It's a male Fannia. F. lustrator?
 
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 Yes.
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 Thx Stephen and Stephane !
 
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