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body ~ 5 mm.

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Tephritis bardanae (Schrank, 1803)

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Thanks.

Strange is that in galery some have gray and some orange thorax. I suppose that is matter of lighting the same as at eyes where sometimes comes out green and sometimes orange.

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Don't you think it could be a slightly wrong white balance result?

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Nope, I think the eyes thing is the matter of angle at which light hits eyes, see obvious example: blue color (actualy seen rainbow coloring)at shoot from above(which does not exist realy): http://www.dipter...d_id=31265 the thorax posibly to much flash.

None of those statements tested.

Doh, i took at same plant at same time, same settings, shot of yellow fly: http://www.dipter...d_id=31344 and came out yellow, so I do think that the above colors on my image are OK

So far the obvious , right away spotted problem with wb, although using flash and having flash wb is that blue turns violet or viceversa, on some flowers. No other problems with wb.

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The other explanation might be in the angle of light: you can observe some parts of tephritid eye are intensively green turning scalett towards margins or vice versa, striate or spotted. In any case, eye color in this fly is not the case of interspecific differences...