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Kerkini Mts: Greece. Boggy are near beeech forest at 1485 m a.s.l (Sultanitsa) 28th May 2008. Anthomyiids are difficult to photograph in the alcohol, being so black and grey they do not show up well, still I thought I would try this one and see what is said.

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I don't know if this view will help but here it is.

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With such a hairy and projected sternite 5 you have chance with Michael :D

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It is a Delia species in the Delia floricola RD group. There are about 6 species in the Palaearctic belonging to this group. As I can't see any long setae on the margins of the tergites, it is probably floricola, but don't take this a positive det. The species differ in the arrangement of long or shorter setae on the ternites and tergites. By chance I am at this very moment drawing the abdomen (ventral view) of a new species from the Altai, sent to me by Vera Sorokina, Nikita, so there are probably many more species to discover. By the way, these setae are on sternite 3, not 5. The second photo looks like something else as I can't see these setae.

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Gordon, if you break off the abdomen and photo it from below, it may be possible to say more

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Really, thank you Michael
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No Michael, I'm not guilty in this case!
Just let me know that your hand are free and Anthomyiidae from Narian-Mar tundra will be immediately posted to you!
Nikita

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Thanks Michael,
I of course am also waiting for you to be free but those 50,000 specimens you told me you had to work on make me think it may be a long time. Never-the-less I am sorting a few Anthos to separate tubes for males and females in the hope that they can be sent next year some time so I can get a few more records here.