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LordV
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 Is this a black biting fly ? Pic taken today South coast UK body length 1.6mm (I thought it was a tiny parasitoid wasp)
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 wwow!! Brian, this not seems to be a Simuliidae! I never saw a head like this one!! And the arista is very long! Frown wow!
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 to see it bigger:
http://www.flickr...477&size=o

great photo, Brian!!
I'm very. very curious about this one! It has such unusual eyes!!! It must be a new family! Grin Or it is a very unusual simuliid. awkward
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 Stilpon. Need to check which one, though.
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 what an unusual Hybotidae!!! Frown
 
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 Most likely S. graminum.
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