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Hi,
This little yellow fly I saw in southern Brandenburg in July. It was almost too small for my camera, so the pics are no good quality, I am sorry. The uppermost photo is from another day than the lower; however, I am quite convinced that it is the same species if not the same fly.
As the arista is long plumose, I thought of a Drosophilid. The eyes seem to be hairy. Can a genus be ascertained?
Many thanks, Sundew

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Scaptomyza, probably pallida but cannot be entirely certain from these images.

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That's a surprise - I thought I knew Scaptomyza pallida, and I always saw quite dark ones. So there seems to be a considerable variation in colour. Good to know - thanks, Paul!

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'Pallida' means pale, so there once must have been pale specimens available for description. ;)

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Sure, but Simmondsia chinensis is native to California and Canna indica to Central America - just to cite some botanical errors :D. Names may give valuable clues but one cannot absolutely count on them...
Thanks for the reply nevertheless!

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Provenance of a specimen is much more likely to be confused than colour, at least when it comes to pale and dark colours. :P