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Hi Joke,

I know it's foolish of me, but I'm still impressed by the similarity between these flies and the Gallery photo http://www.diptera.info/showphoto.php?photo_id=2791 labelled Delia platura. The overlap of the twp calypters seems the same, and the mouth doesn't seem to protrude any more in mine. I can't see any clear difference in the chaetotaxy, or the shape of the head. The shapes of the thoracic sections also seem very similar. Even the little hair between the 3 strong pdcs and the scutellum is there. Am I missing something big? (Wouldn't be the first time ;) )

Stephen