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I have looked through the Stratiomyid gallery and I didn't find this, but perhaps I missed it.

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Lasiopa ?

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Hmm, I replied the same without the '?' but apparently my reply did not get through.

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You mean you wrote a reply to this thread and it went into an internet black hole and not here. I have had emails do that.

I will contact Guido Van de Weyer who does the Stratiomyidae for me and ask him if he can do this from a photo, I have other pictures of it, cold days have there advantages.

Gordon

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It is Lasiopa, very likely villosa, but you need the male terminalia to get it down to species, especially in Greece there are several species. Nice pic, we should use it in the gallery..

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Thanks Maddin,
I have no objection to it being in the gallery, however as I have never put anything there I will need to read the instructions first, as it is now it is a low quality image, to keep the weight down, in the gallery do you want the highest quality, it makes a much bigger image, see also below. The following image, cut from the original is 49K, but saved at highest quality it would be 550K.

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To continue from above, I liked the artistry of the arrangement of the photos in the orginal, but if I cut one out you can have a closer image, it depends on what you want? Basically I can supply the first photo in a larger format if required. However how can it be posted in the gallery if we are not sure of the species, I didn't catch it, or one, there were many?

The following, cut from another image is 44K but 450 if saved for maximum quality.

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In trying to determine the answer to my own question of "How important is the quality of depth in the image for web usage?" I created the comparison below, can you tell which is the 40K image and which the 400K the image is a screen-capture by PSP of the two imges open side by side in Adobe Photoshop. I suspect the 40K image will be fine.

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I am inclined to think it might be balius. L. villosa should have pale knees.