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Gentlemen/women, this is certainly Euxesta pechumani Curran 1938, a fly, which was discovered in Mediterranea in 1921 by Mario Bezzi, who misidentified it as nitidiventris; it was actually described only 16 years after from its country of origin (TL New York City!). The fly is rather common from the Azores to Turkmenistan now and is associated with old elms; also common on poplar logs (as we collected it in Ioannina, Greece), etc.