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Don't know..Antho.? < Myopina myopina ID'd by Nikita V.
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Found a couple of days ago on a daisy in sandy grassland above a beach..sorry about the bit of grass obscuring it Frown
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I don't know either, but I think it has a Scathophagid look.
 
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Myopina myopina, I think
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Thanks Nikita, another unrecorded species for Shetland. Smile
I thought it looked a bit Scathophagidae too Stephen, and going by other posts about these flies, others have been confused by it too...Smile
 
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Always happy to re-affirm my ignorance Wink
 
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