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That is what I'd call a typical Egle: a spring anthomyiid with a short, strongly face and small antennae.

It is difficult to judge whether Niek's fly has a 'stiff upper lip' from the photo alone. It is clearly an anthomyid, but not of the characteristic spring genera Phorbia and Egle.

My first hunch was in fact Botanophila, but I cannot offer any support whatsoever for the idea. Perhaps it's just the fact that the last anthomyids I've seen where Botanophila...