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family? Sciomyzidae Pteromicra sp
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Berlin - July 2014

Hello everyone,

I only have one photo and i made it with a compact camera (cheap garbage) in 2014. I just started paying attention to diptera in 2014. I knew nothing about cameras or photography. Sorry for the bad quality but it is what it is. I don't know which family this belongs to. I'd like to get an idea of what it is and hopefully i can find it again for macro photos.

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Sciomyzidae, for starters
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Thank you, Paul. I didn't think about Sciomyzidae. I need to polish my identification skills. Meantime, i'm going to see if i can find this again. I may still have time this year. I have photos of a similar species but mostly yellow in the same place - a local park with a marsh and pond. I'll keep looking this year. I'd like to get better photos and id it.

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I'd say Pteromicra (angustipennis?)
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Hello and Thank you, Nikita. I hope o find it this year. I will start hunting in the reeds again.

I hope that you and your wife are doing well.

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John
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