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Fly with white abdomen
Cor Zonneveld
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Posted on 13-05-2007 21:01
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Today in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, I saw this fly on a bramble bush. Rather small (say 6 mm) with green metallic thorax but white abdomen. Very conspicuous in flight, it almost disappears when it lands, because then the white is hidden under te wings. IDable?
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Nikita Vikhrev
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IDable?

...till genus - Argyra, Dolichopodidae.
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