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* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.05.19
* size - 3 mm - 4 mm (small fly)
* habitat - farmland and near river..
* substrate - tall grass


It was a long time I don?t know which family it can belongs. Wink (or it is a new genus that is tricky...)


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 new family for me. Grin

Is it possible to get species level?
 
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 Probably L. bifurcata, but it's been a while since I last identified some of these flies.
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 Are they common when they occur? Or is it rare to spot them?

I learned that L. bifurcata is parthenogenetic! Frown
 
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 ID confirmed.
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 Rather common and especialy in places as you discribed - grass in wet place.
Your is female and according my key exactly L. bifurcata.
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 thanks! Smile It is a very beautiful fly! Among Conopidae, Miltogramminae flies they are such a beauty as well!
 
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