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Okay, I take you point. The sternites are very pale towards the end of the abdomen and I thought the whole abdomen was curved downwards. But rather than the whole abdomen being curved downwards, it is only the genitalia and that would quite nicely fit with the Platypezidae.

From the collector I first understood that there were smaller and larger flies in the smoke and that the pictures were of the larger ones. That set me on the wrong track of the Empidoidea. I guess I was not critical enough. I will wait the specimens by mail and let you know.