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Also Empididae? => Empis sp.
Cortmeyer
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Hello,
I don't really know, if this is the same fly as the other one.
I saw this fly also yesterday (8.14.19) in Frankfurt Germany in my

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Could be Empis pennipes: https://diptera.i...to_id=4639
 
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If it was photographed yesterday, then it makes Empis pennipes very unlikely. Still, I have no alternative.
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Ok., I think, You convinced me, Paul, so I let it be Empis sp.

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