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Big Greek Milesia
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 Wetland Kerkini, Greece. Well its is from all over the middle alititudes of the mountain, this photo at 850 ms

Milesia craboniformis (looks different to the images of this in the gallery) or Milesia semiluctifera - no images in gallery
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 It's Milesia crabroniformis. The M. semiluctifera is very different.
 
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 Thanks Isidro,
It is a magnificent, if somewhat annoying fly.
 
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 Yes... I wish very much to find one. I never saw it alive, only M. semiluctifera.
 
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 I never saw semiluctifera! Sad
 
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 I spotted both. ehhehe
 
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