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 Hi

I'm in awe with this fly. It is a such beauty. Yesterday I spotted dozens of them in Serra da Estrela (near the highest point of mailand Portugal) near the famous LAGOA COMPRIDA (Long Lagoon). It was cold, about 10 ?C.
There were plenty of Sciaridae, Bibionidae, Sciomyzidae (mainly Pherbellia spp.), Lonchopteridae, Tipulidae, Limoniidae and so on. I spotted this fly on a dry plant (see the first photos maybe an Avena sp.??) and in a shrub with lots of hemipterans, and plecopterans!
When I finished to take photos, and collect some Micropezid flies, I saw one micropezid run on ground and I could realized that this fly jumps a lot. Very curious behavior.

I suppose this is a male. There were plenty of females around.


EDIT---> Title changed from "one of the most spectacular flies I've seen - Micropezidae! Smile" to "Micropezidae - Micropeza sp." and then to "Micropezidae - Micropeza lateralis"
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 Micropeza sp. ? Or M. grallatrix or M. lateralis?
What do you think?
 
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 Micropeza - but I do not know which species.
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 thanks, Kahis.

It would be great to know which are the characters for M. grallatrix and M. lateralis.
 
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 It is Micropeza lateralis MeigenSmile
 
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 thank you! spasiva, Andrey.

Could you provide please the key to split among the
M. lateralis and M. grallatrix ? Thank you.
 
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