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Small black fly with orange wings
ChrisR
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 Found this little fly (6mm) in wet vegetation in southern England. Can anyone see enough to identify it?
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 Minettia longipennis
 
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 or Minettia lupulina?
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 Don't think so - lupulina has a yellower body, greyish thorax and no dark wing bases.
 
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 There in my garden in south of the netherlands as wel.
 
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