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Black colored, metallic fly
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Posted on 25-08-2016 14:52
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Please help me identify this fly that I found in urban housing area, Selangor, Malaysia.
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I managed to find out it belongs to Lonchaeidae family.
 
Iain MacGowan
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Posted on 26-08-2016 09:17
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Given your location I think this will be a female of the genus Silba
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